The Second Coming by WB Yeats. MCQ for Class XI 1st Semester.

Multiple Choice Questions with answers. Prepare these questions for your 1st semester of class xi.

Question: 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)

Question: W.B Yeats was a – a) Victorian b) modern c) post modern d) romantic poet.

Ans: b)

Question: The poem The Second Coming’ was first composed in – a) 1915 b) 1916 c) 1919 d) 1920.

Ans: c)

Question: The kind of poetry W.B. Yeats mostly composed is – a) ode b) epic c) lyric poetry d) blank verse.

Ans: c)

Question: Innocence is – a) regained b) lost c) snatched away d) transformed into experience.

Ans: b)

Question: Yeats passed most of his life in a) India b) England c) Ireland d) Australia.

Ans: c)

Question: 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)

Question: ‘Spiritus Mundi’ means – a) soul of a falcon b) soul of a falconer c) spirit of the universe d) spirit of a beast.

Ans: c)

Question: The central theme of the poem, “The Second Coming” is – a) love b) hate c) idealism d) apocalypse.

Ans: d)

Question: 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)

Question: The image that appears before the poet is – a) huge b) frightening c) small d) tiny.

Ans: a)

Question: “The Second Coming” is a part of the literary movement called – a) realism b) romanticism c) postmodernism d)modernism.

Ans: d)

Question: The image that appears, troubles the viewer’s – a) thought b) mind c) sight d) body.

Ans: c)

Question: The structure used in the poem “The Second Coming” is based on- a) epic b) free verse c) sonnet d) ballad.

Ans: b)

Question: The vast image has the body and head of – a) lion and man b) snake and lion c) lion and tiger d) a man and lion.

Ans: a)

Question: The central symbolic image used in “The Second Coming” is a/an – a) mouse b) falcon c) eagle. d) cat.

Ans: b)

Question: The hour has come for the arrival of – a) soaring temperatures b) a tough man c) burning desires d) a rough beast.

Ans: d)

Question: In the poem, the ‘widening gyre’ symbolizes – a) imbalance b) order c) chaos d) upliftment.

Ans: c)

Question: 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)

Question: Here, ‘gyre’ means – a) bent b) straight c) spiral d) widening.

Ans: c)

Question: Near and around the beast is seen the shadows of – a) bullets b) desert birds c) fighter planes d) kites.

Ans: b)

Question: The speaker in “The Second Coming” is a – a) warrior b) statesman c) preacher d) prophet.

Ans: d)

Question: The Falcon is unable to hear – a) Beast b) God c) the falconer d) in the darkness.

Ans: c)

Question: The falcon in the poem “The Second Coming” symbolizes – a) fear b) shock c) control d) doubt.

Ans: c)

Question: When things collapse, there reigns – a) disorder b) order c) peace d) hope.

Ans: a)

Question: Anarchy is loosed upon the – a) individual b) world c) body d) state.

Ans: b)

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