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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

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

3. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Faith.
(d) Sense.

4. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The pattern.
(b) The past.
(c) The sight.
(d) The future.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

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

4. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?

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