Line-by-Line MCQs from “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats Answer of Practice Set – 1 | By PKG SIR |

Line-by-Line MCQs from “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats Answer of Practice Set – 1 | By PKG SIR | 

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

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2. Who cannot hear the falconer?

a) The dove

b) The eagle

c) The owl

d) The falcon ✅

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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

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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

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5. What is the 'centre' unable to do?

a) Destroy everything

b) Hold things together ✅

c) Move forward

d) Control the sun

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6. What is loosed upon the world?

a) Love

b) Anarchy ✅

c) Nature

d) Angels

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7. What does the phrase "blood-dimmed tide" suggest?

a) Peace and joy

b) War and violence ✅

c) Celebration

d) Religious rituals

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8. What has been drowned according to the speaker?

a) Ceremonies of war

b) Ceremony of innocence ✅

c) Ceremony of joy

d) Festivals

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9. What do the best people lack?

a) Wealth

b) Strength

c) Conviction ✅

d) Confidence

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10. How are the worst people described?

a) Passionate and intense ✅

b) Calm and silent

c) Wise and kind

d) Afraid and confused

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11. What is said to be at hand?

a) A great war

b) A natural disaster

c) A revelation ✅

d) A festival

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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 ✅

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13. What does the poet see emerging from "Spiritus Mundi"?

a) A lion

b) A vast image ✅

c) A child

d) A book

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14. What kind of place does the image appear from?

a) A mountain

b) The sea

c) The desert ✅

d) The forest

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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

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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

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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

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18. What surrounds the creature in the desert?

a) Trees and flowers

b) Dancing women

c) Shadows of desert birds ✅

d) Rain and clouds

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19. What drops again in the poem?

a) Snow

b) Darkness ✅

c) Silence

d) Light

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20. How long has the stony sleep lasted?

a) Twenty decades

b) Twenty centuries ✅

c) Two years

d) Two millennia

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21. What disturbed the stony sleep?

a) A thunderstorm

b) A rocking cradle ✅

c) A dragon’s roar

d) A ringing bell

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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

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23. Where is the rough beast going?

a) To Rome

b) To London

c) To Bethlehem ✅

d) To Heaven

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24. Why is the beast slouching towards Bethlehem?

a) To sleep

b) To be born ✅

c) To pray

d) To die

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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