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

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The sun.
(b) The day.
(c) The night.
(d) The truth.

3. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world without man.
(d) The world of lachrymose souls.

4. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memories.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Children.
(d) Whispers.

5. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Belching.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Building-up.
(d) Obviation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

3. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

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

5. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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