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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Explicit.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Spiritually imbued.
(d) Ecstatic.

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

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The stars.
(b) The moving tree.
(c) The turning world.
(d) The summer leaf.

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

5. 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 lazy stroll.
(c) A formal pattern.
(d) A vertical mien.

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. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

4. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

5. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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