The Second Coming | MCQ | CLASS 11 | WEST BENGAL BOARD

The Second Coming

English Literature | MCQ Practice

1. W.B Yeats was born in

(a) 1862

(b) 1865

(c) 1870

(d) 1890

2. W. B. Yeats was born in

(a) Ireland

(b) England

(c) U. S. A.

(d) China

3. W.B. Yeats moved to London in

(a) 1874

(b) 1872

(c) 1895

(d) 1905

4. W.B. Yeats's most important early source of material was -

(a) Irish mythology

(b) Hindu mythology

(c) Greek mythology

(d) Egyptian mythology

5. The Second Coming is originated from the book of Bible -

(a) Leviticus

(b) Joshna

(c) Genesis

(d) Revolution

6. Who has titled a novel after a quote from the poem 'The Second Coming'?

(a) Chinua Achebe

(b) Thomas Hardy

(c) Anthony Trollope

(d) None of these

7. Most of the poems of W.B. Yeats are

(a) Odes

(b) Epics

(c) Sonnets

(d) Lyrics

8. On which poetic form is the poem "The Second Coming" based?

(a) Sonnet

(b) Ode

(c) Iambic pentameter

(d) None of these

9. In which of his works did Yeats give details of his philosophy about gyres?

(a) A Vision

(b) A Wind Among the Reeds

(c) The Second Rose

(d) The Town

10. W.B. Yeats originally wrote in

(a) Latin

(b) German

(c) English

(d) Irish

11. In the Bible, 'The Second Coming' is referred to as

(a) The second appearance of Pharaoh

(b) The second appearance of Adam

(c) The second appearance of the angel

(d) The second coming of Jesus

12. In which book of his does Yeats give details about his use of 'gyre'?

(a) The Secret Rose

(b) The Tower

(c) The Wind Among the Reeds

(d) A Vision

13. As a young adolescent, W.B. Yeats lived in -

(a) Dublin

(b) Manchester

(c) London

(d) Birmingham

14. Who wrote the poem "The Second Coming"?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) John Keats

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) Carlyle

15. When was the poem 'The Second Coming' written?

(a) 1919

(b) 1922

(c) 1918

(d) 1938

16. When was the poem 'The Second Coming' first published?

(a) 1919

(b) 1920

(c) 1923

(d) 1938

17. How many lines are in 'The Second Coming'?

(a) 24 lines

(b) 22 lines

(c) 26 lines

(d) 28 lines

18. In which form is the poem written?

(a) Blank verse

(b) Lyrical

(c) None of the two

(d) Free verse

19. The poem explores the poet's fear about

(a) The beginning of peace

(b) The end of the World

(c) Communal harmony

(d) The end of the night

20. The title of the poem is

(a) Ironical

(b) Harmonical

(c) Fearful

(d) Pharmaceutical

21. Yeats wrote the poem 'The Second Coming' -

(a) After the First World War

(b) After the Second World War

(c) Before World War I

(d) None of the above

22. Gyre means

(a) Perpendicular

(b) Horizontal

(c) A series of overlapping circles

(d) A square

23. A falcon is a

(a) Furious animal

(b) Bird with large wings

(c) Pet bird

(d) Domestic animal

24. In the poem 'The Second Coming', the falconer means

(a) A hunter

(b) A milkman

(c) Controller of man

(d) War creator

25. Anarchy means

(a) Disorderliness

(b) Tranquility

(c) Series of events

(d) None of these

26. Blood dimmed means -

(a) Brightened

(b) Darkened

(c) Highlighted

(d) Continued

27. Conviction means -

(a) Confusion

(b) Confidence

(c) Willingness

(d) Sadness

28. In the poem 'The Second Coming', the poet predicts about

(a) Rebirth of Jesus

(b) Death of Jesus

(c) Restarting of War

(d) Coming of next war

29. Spiritus Mundi is -

(a) A shape with lion body and head of a man

(b) A shape with lion head and human body

(c) A shape having lion's head and body

(d) A shape with human body and head

30. 'Slouches' means in the poem

(a) Moving in a droopy slow motion

(b) Moving very fast

(c) Walking on the road

(d) None of the above

31. W.B. Yeats was a-

(a) Dramatist

(b) Poet

(c) Novelist

(d) Poet and dramatist

32. Yeats was a member of the Irish-

(a) Senate

(b) Assembly

(c) Parliament

(d) None of these

33. Yeats' poetic career spans the period of-

(a) Seventy years

(b) Sixty years

(c) Fifty years

(d) More than fifty years

34. Which of the following schools of thought was Yeats interested in?

(a) Christianity

(b) Occultism and spirituality

(c) Judaism

(d) Druidry

35. The name of the collection in which 'The Second Coming' was published is -

(a) Last Poems and Plays

(b) The Wild Swans at Coole

(c) Michael Robartes and the Dancer

(d) The Winding Stair and Other Poems

36. Which author titled a novel after a quote from 'The Second Coming'?

(a) Chinua Achebe - 'Things Fall Apart' (1958)

(b) Toni Morrison - 'Beloved' (1987)

(c) Anne Garreta - 'Sphinx' (1986)

(d) Karen Kelly - 'Bethlehem' (2019)

37. Which of the following perspectives is used in "The Second Coming"?

(a) First person

(b) Second person

(c) Third person

(d) A universal perspective

38. How many stanzas are there in 'The Second Coming'?

(a) Two stanzas

(b) Three stanzas

(c) Four stanzas

(d) Five stanzas

39. The word 'turning' in the poem suggests -

(a) The poet turned sideways in his sleep

(b) The poet saw a vision which proved to be a turning point for his career

(c) Movement of the wheel of history

(d) Fortune turning into misfortune

40. In Yeats' "The Second Coming", the falcon symbolises -

(a) Human race

(b) Human pleasures

(c) Man's miseries

(d) The animal world

41. In the poem, the word 'falconer' symbolises -

(a) Christ

(b) Mankind

(c) The person who trains falcons

(d) The person who uses falcons to hunt

42. In Yeats' 'The Second Coming', the word 'anarchy' refers to -

(a) A political stance

(b) End of civilisation

(c) An uncontrollable chaos

(d) Celebration of Christ's birth

43. The phrase 'ceremony of innocence' suggests -

(a) Traditional and innocent way of life

(b) The celebration of baptism

(c) Humanity's loss of innocence

(d) A counterpart of Blake's 'Songs of Innocence'

44. The phrase 'passionate intensity' in the poem 'The Second Coming' symbolises -

(a) Strong feelings

(b) Extreme degree of strength

(c) Fanaticism and violence

(d) Feats of tension and anxiety

45. The juxtaposition in the lines "The best lack all convictions, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" -

(a) Contrasts good and evil

(b) Explores the reasons behind the Second Coming

(c) Compares a terrible beast to new life

(d) Presents a cause for the lack of conviction

46. 'Spiritus Mundi' is a word of -

(a) Greek language

(b) Latin language

(c) French language

(d) Dutch language

47. The poetic device used in the phrase 'Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert' is -

(a) Consonance

(b) Allusion

(c) Alliteration

(d) Symbolism

48. 'Desert birds' are the symbols of -

(a) Life

(b) Happiness

(c) Death

(d) Tears

49. When the speaker says "the darkness drops again", he is suggesting that -

(a) The vision is fading

(b) His faith in humanity is affirmed

(c) The death of humanity is imminent

(d) The desert sun has set

50. The 'rough beast' in the poem refers to -

(a) Christ

(b) Beelzebub

(c) Moloch

(d) Anti-Christ

51. The lines "And what rough beast, its hour ... to be born?" -

(a) Provide readers some comfort regarding the end of the world

(b) Deliver an unexpected climax regarding the darkness about to descend

(c) Answer an idea posed about death in the first stanza

(d) Showcase uncertainty about coming events

52. The difference between the first and second stanzas is best described as -

(a) The first has definite rhyme scheme, and the second does not

(b) The first contains imagery predicting the Second Coming, which the second confirms

(c) The first develops a metaphor about life, while the second provides concrete descriptions

(d) The first lacks specific details, the second provides concrete descriptions

53. Which is not a message of the poem?

(a) Christ will come and save us all

(b) Something is coming

(c) The World is becoming detached from tradition and morality

(d) The world is in trouble

54. Which of the following statements is implied in the poem?

(a) Hope is always stronger than fear

(b) The Second Coming can be liberating and positive as well as dangerous

(c) There is no redemption to be found and the world is going to be destroyed

(d) Change is definitely positive as it will create space for a new reality

55. Which is not an example of Yeats' prophecies in 'The Second Coming' becoming true in the 20th century?

(a) The invention of the Atomic bomb

(b) The decrease in churchgoing among youth

(c) The Holocaust

(d) The environmental movement

56. What is the overall tone of the poem?

(a) Excitement

(b) Doubt

(c) Confidence

(d) Anxiety

57. Source of W.B. Yeats' poetic material was ............ mythology.

(a) Hindu

(b) Greek

(c) Irish

(d) Egyptian

58. W.B. Yeats was associated with the ............ artistic movement.

(a) Modernism

(b) Surrealism

(c) Renaissance

(d) None of these

59. Yeats belonged to the ........... century.

(a) 18th

(b) 19th

(c) 20th

(d) 21st

60. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in .................

(a) 1923

(b) 1926

(c) 1933

(d) 1940

61. An important symbol in Yeats' poetry is .............

(a) Garden

(b) Gyre

(c) Candle

(d) Eagle

62. The Second Coming was published in ..............

(a) 1920

(b) 1921

(c) 1924

(d) 1928

63. The Second Coming was first published in .............

(a) The Caller

(b) The Dialer

(c) The Dial

(d) The Hindu

64. The Second Coming contains ............ lines.

(a) 20

(b) 22

(c) 25

(d) 28

65. The Second Coming is written in ............ form.

(a) A couplet

(b) A blank verse

(c) A sonnet

(d) Quatrains and couplet

66. The poetic device used in the line "Turning and turning in the widening gyre" is ........

(a) Alliteration

(b) Personification

(c) Symbolism

(d) Repetition

67. The line "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" signifies that..........

(a) The old order is collapsing

(b) Resources are being spoiled

(c) The government has gone insane

(d) Power will come again in the same hands

68. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" hints that ................

(a) Everything is in proper order

(b) The government has become bankrupt

(c) There is a state of flux and chaos

(d) None of the above

69. According to W.B. Yeats, the ceremony of .................. is drowned.

(a) Lover strong

(b) Innocence

(c) Peace

(d) Joy

70. The poet is sure that the ............... coming is at hand.

(a) First

(b) Second

(c) Fourth

(d) Last

71. The poet has noticed ............... coming out of the "Spiritus Mundi"

(a) A rough beast

(b) A rocking cradle

(c) A vast image

(d) Jesus Christ

72. "Spiritus Mundi" refers to ..............

(a) Heaven

(b) Bell

(c) Universal storehouse of images

(d) God himself

73. In the poem, the poet is talking about a beast that has a shape of the body of a ............ and the head of a .............

(a) Snake; woman

(b) Man; tiger

(c) Lion; man

(d) Horse; dog