View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Death.
(c) Time.
(d) Love.

2. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of passion.
(b) The form of foolishness.
(c) The form of temporality.
(d) The form of limitation.

3. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The gyre of history.
(b) The eddies of time.
(c) The cold wind.
(d) The vacillation of spirit.

4. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) The boar.
(c) The dance.
(d) The heart of the world.

5. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) The quick of movement.
(b) Itself unmoving.
(c) The cause and end of movement.
(d) Not in itself desirable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

2. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

3. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

5. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 288 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample