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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) The wind.
(b) Men's minds.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Time.

2. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Men.
(b) Societies.
(c) Truths.
(d) Words.

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

4. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Thought.
(b) Incomprehensibility.
(c) Deprivation.
(d) Sense.

5. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Eternity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

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

5. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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