Line-by-Line MCQs from "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats/ Practice Set-1 By PKG SIR
1. What is happening in the widening gyre?
a) The sun is setting
b) The falcon is turning
c) Time is standing still
d) A wave is rising
2. Who cannot hear the falconer?
a) The dove
b) The eagle
c) The owl
d) The falcon
3. What does the falcon represent in the poem?
a) Obedience and control
b) Chaos and disorder
c) Peace and harmony
d) Silence and darkness
4. What does "Things fall apart" suggest?
a) Nature is healing
b) The world is being rebuilt
c) Disorder is spreading
d) Science is winning
5. What is the 'centre' unable to do?
a) Destroy everything
b) Hold things together
c) Move forward
d) Control the sun
6. What is loosed upon the world?
a) Love
b) Anarchy
c) Nature
d) Angels
7. What does the phrase "blood-dimmed tide" suggest?
a) Peace and joy
b) War and violence
c) Celebration
d) Religious rituals
8. What has been drowned according to the speaker?
a) Ceremonies of war
b) Ceremony of innocence
c) Ceremony of joy
d) Festivals
9. What do the best people lack?
a) Wealth
b) Strength
c) Conviction
d) Confidence
10. How are the worst people described?
a) Passionate and intense
b) Calm and silent
c) Wise and kind
d) Afraid and confused
11. What is said to be at hand?
a) A great war
b) A natural disaster
c) A revelation
d) A festival
12. What is at hand according to the poet?
a) The Last Supper
b) The First Coming
c) The Third Revolution
d) The Second Coming
13. What does the poet see emerging from "Spiritus Mundi"?
a) A lion
b) A vast image
c) A child
d) A book
14. What kind of place does the image appear from?
a) A mountain
b) The sea
c) The desert
d) The forest
15. What is the shape of the emerging figure?
a) Lion's body, man's head
b) Tiger's body, bird's head
c) Man's body, lion's head
d) Horse's body, snake's head
16. How is the gaze of the creature described?
a) Gentle like the moon
b) Pitiless like the sun
c) Loving like a mother
d) Cold like ice
17. What is the creature doing?
a) Sleeping under a tree
b) Moving its slow thighs
c) Flying in the sky
d) Singing a song
18. What surrounds the creature in the desert?
a) Trees and flowers
b) Dancing women
c) Shadows of desert birds
d) Rain and clouds
19. What drops again in the poem?
a) Snow
b) Silence
c) Darkness
d) Light
20. How long has the stony sleep lasted?
a) Twenty decades
b) Twenty centuries
c) Two years
d) Two millennia
21. What disturbed the stony sleep?
a) A thunderstorm
b) A rocking cradle
c) A dragon’s roar
d) A ringing bell
22. What kind of beast is mentioned at the end?
a) A gentle lamb
b) A wise lion
c) A rough beast
d) A heavenly spirit
23. Where is the rough beast going?
a) To Rome
b) To London
c) To Bethlehem
d) To Heaven
24. Why is the beast slouching towards Bethlehem?
a) To sleep
b) To be born
c) To pray
d) To die
25. What does “slouches” suggest in the last line?
a) Energetic movement
b) Proud walk
c) Lazy and awkward movement
d) Flying above the sky
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