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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The heart of the world.
(b) The stars.
(c) The boar.
(d) The still point.

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A thrush.
(b) A robin.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A falcon.

3. The first line of Part III of "Burnt Norton" states that "here is a place of" what?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Time future.
(c) Disaffection.
(d) Stillness.

4. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The memory of inveterate scars.
(b) The still point of the turning world.
(c) The artery of truth.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

5. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The emotion.
(b) The sound.
(c) The form.
(d) The passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

3. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

5. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

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