Chapter 7 -
The Second Coming-W. B. Yeats
1. The poet of the poem, "The Second Coming' is -
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) Ezra Pound
(c) Virginia Woolf (d) T. S. Eliot
Ans: (a)
2. The poem 'The Second Coming' was first composed in -
(a) 1915 (b) 1916
(c) 1919 (d) 1920
Ans: (c)
3. The kind of poetry W.B. Yeats mostly composed is -
(a) ode (b) epic
(c) blank verse (d) lyric poetry
Ans: (d)
4. While writing the poem, the poet was influenced by the -
(a) American Civil War (b) World War I
(c) Russian Civil War (d) World War II
Ans: (b)
5. Yeats passed most of his life in -
(a) India (b) England
(c) Ireland (d) Australia
Ans: (c)
6. The central theme of the poem, "The Second Coming' is -
(a) love (b) hate
(c) idealism (d) apocalypse
Ans: (d)
7. The rhyme scheme of the first four lines of the poem, "The Second Coming' is -
(a) abba (b) abab
(c) baab (d) aabb
Ans: (d)
8. ‘The Second Coming' is a part of the literary movement called -
(a) realism (b) romanticism
(c) postmodernism (d) modernism
Ans: (d)
9. The structure used in the poem 'The Second Coming' is based on -
(a) sonnet (b) epic
(c) ballad (d) free verse
Ans: (d)
10. The central symbolic image used in 'The Second Coming' is a/an -
(a) cat (b) mouse
(c) falcon (d) eagle
Ans: (c)
11. In the poem the 'widening gyre’ symbolizes -
(a) imbalance (b) order
(c) chaos (d) upliftment
Ans: (c)
12. In the poem the word 'gyre' symbolizes -
(a) chaos and disorder (b) harmony and peace
(c) aspiration and hope (d) trust and mistrust
Ans: (a)
13. Here, 'gyre' means -
(a) straight (b) bent
(c) widening (d) spiral
Ans: (d)
14. The speaker in 'The Second Coming' is a -
(a) statesman (b) warrior
(c) prophet (d) preacher
Ans: (c)
15. The falcon in the poem 'The Second Coming' symbolizes -
(a) control (b) fear
(c) shock (d) doubt
Ans: (a)
16. The phrase, 'The Spiritus Mundi' in the poem 'The Second Coming' represents -
(a) a metaphor for chaos and disorder (b) the social upliftment
(c) a revival of orderliness (d) the return of the Christ
Ans: (a)
17. The phrase, 'a shape with lion body and the head of a man' refers to -
(a) Satan (b) the dreadful beast
(c) Jesus Christ (d) the Sphinx
Ans: (b)
18. In the poem 'blank and pitiless as the sun' means -
(a) the Sphinx's gaze (b) the falcon's gaze
(c) the eagle's gaze (d) the lion's gaze
Ans: (a)
19. The phrase "darkness drops again indicates -
(a) the beginning of a new day (b) the return of chaos
(c) upliftment (d) superiority
Ans: (b)
20. The 'twenty centuries of stony sleep' in the poem denotes -
(a) the passage of time (b) the absence of loyalty
(c) the stagnation of civilization (d) the presence morality
Ans: (b)
