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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) The bird.
(c) Time future.
(d) Possibility.

2. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) The rose-garden.
(b) The memory.
(c) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(d) Time future.

3. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other birds.
(b) Other echoes.
(c) Other footfalls.
(d) Other times.

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The fixity of time.
(b) The machinations of men.
(c) The boarhound and the boar.
(d) The long forgotten wars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

2. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

3. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

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

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

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