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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The organ.
(b) The cello.
(c) The piano.
(d) The violin.

4. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?
(a) The passion.
(b) The sound.
(c) The form.
(d) The emotion.

5. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The cloud.
(b) The bird.
(c) The lotos.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

3. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

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

5. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?

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