West Bengal Class 11 1st Sem English Chapter 7 Solution | পশ্চিমবঙ্গ একাদশ শ্রেণির ইংরেজী চ্যাপ্টার ৭ সমাধান | WBCHSE Class 11 1st Sem English Books Chapter 7 Solution | WBCHSE Class 11 English Chapter 7 The Second Coming-W. B. Yeats Question Answer 2026

 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)