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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Reality and truth.
(b) Sin and sight.
(c) Freedom and expression.
(d) Heaven and damnation.

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

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

4. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The soul.
(b) The man.
(c) The Word.
(d) The beautiful.

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Sincerity.
(d) Distraction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

2. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What sort of bird is in the first part 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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