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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Burnt Norton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(c) Time future.
(d) The memory.

2. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The truth.
(b) The future.
(c) Reality.
(d) All of time.

3. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A haphazard line.
(b) A formal pattern.
(c) A vertical mien.
(d) A lazy stroll.

4. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) Yew.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Wind.
(d) The clematis.

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The bird.
(b) Memory.
(c) Dust.
(d) Time future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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