Vivekananda Coaching Centre: The second coming

VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE

VERSE:- THE SECOND COMING.

POET:- W.B YEATS.

A. Fill in the blanks :-

1) A gaze blank and pitiless as the ----. [(a) moon (b) earth (c) sun (d) star ]

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2) Turning and turning in the ---- gyre. [(a)moving (b) widening (c) rounding (d) none of the above.]

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3)The ---- cannot hear the falconer. [(a) birds (b) valture (c) falcon (d) dove ]

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4)Mere ------ is loosed upon the world [(a) anarcy (b) aristocratic (c) Lineage (d) capitalist ]

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5) The ---- drops again; but now I know. [(a) softness (b) bright (c) dark (d) darkness ]

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6) Things fall apart; the ----- cannot hold. [ (a) world (b) earth (c) centre (d) universe ]

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7) That ---- centuries of stony sleep. [ (a) nineteen (b) twenty (c) twenty one (d) eighteen]

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8) A shape with --- body and the head of a ----. [ (a) man, lion (b) Man , beast (c) lion, tiger (d) lion, man ]

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9) A gaze blank and ----- as the sun. [(a) pity (b) Pitiless (c) kind (d) kindness ]

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10) The blood-dimmed ---- is loosed, and everywhere. [(a) wave (b) flow (c) tide (d) ray ]

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11) The ceremony of ---- is drowned; [(a) innocence (b) devil (c) hero (d) sinful ]

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12) Surely some ---- is at hand; [(a) revelation (b) revolt (c) mutiny (d) drama ]

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13) Surely the ---- Coming is at hand. [(a) first (b) second (c) third (d) fourth ]

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14)And what ---- beast, its hour come round at last, [(a) rough (b) huge (c) big (d) small ]

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15) Were vexed to ---- by a rocking cradle. [(a) sweet dream (b) sleeper (c) nightclub (d) nightmare ]

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16) Turning and turning in the widening ---- . [(a) gyre (b) globe (c) top (d) ball ]

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17)while the ---- are full of passionate intensity. [(a) bad (b) worse (c) worst (d) better ]

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18)When a vast ---- out of Spiritus Mundi. [(a) figure (b) image (c) shadow (d) beast ]

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19) somewhere in ---- of the desert. [(a) lands (b) sands (c) grounds (d) ponds ]

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20)Are full of passionate intensity.[(a) intense (b) business (c) job (d) intensity ]

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B. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives :-

21. What is the symbol of the " rough beast" as mentioned in the poem? ---( a) A monster ( b) A saviour ( c) A revolution (d) An apocalypse.

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22. "Things fall apart"... This suggests---- (a) All things are centralized (b) Everything is defused (c) All things are bound together (d) All things are shattered on the ground.

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23. The poem '' The Second Coming'' was composed on --- (a) 1916 (b) 1919 (c) 1736 (d) 1167.

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24. Spiritus Mundi is --- (a) English phrase (b) Latin phrase (c) French phrase (d) Italian phrase .

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25. Whose second coming is mentioned here ? --- (a) Lord Buddha (b) Lord Shiva (c) Lord Christ (d) Lord Krishna.

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26. Yeats wrote ''The second coming'' after --- (a) Quite India Movement (b) First world war (c) Second world war (d) French revolution.

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28. '' The falcon cannot hear the falconer'' --- here 'Falcon' referred to --- (a) The new age (b) the Christian civilization (c) The dark age (d) The koli age.

29. '' The falcon cannot hear the falconer'' --- here 'Falconer' represents for --- (a) The God (b) the Christ (c) The Soldier (d) The prime minister.

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30. W. B Yeats was a /an --- (a) English poet (b) Irish poet (c) Indian poet (d) French poet.

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31. '' The Second Coming '' is --- (a) sonnet (b) Lyric (c) free verse (d) none of the above.

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32. In the poem 'The Second Coming'' there are --- (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four stanzas.

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33. Gyre is --- (a) a circle (b) a spiral motion (c) a civilization (d) a price of land.

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34. Spiritus Mundi had --- (a) Lion's body (b) human head (c) both of them (d) none of them.

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35. The beast Slouches towards --- (a) India (b) Jerusalem (c)Bethlehem (d) Paris.

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36. The poem 'The Second Coming ' messages us --- (a) The falcon cannot hear the falconer. (b) Surely the Second Coming is at hand. (c) The God will come to save us. (d) all of the above.

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37. The Sphinx is risen from --- (a) The land (b) The sand (c) The pond (d) The forest.

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38. The beast had a gaze of pitiless as the --- (a) moon (b) earth (c) star (d) sun.

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39. Whose ceremony is drowned --- (a) innocence (b) beast (c) Men (d) God's.

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40. The falcon is a symbol of --- (a) soul (b) mind (c) Christ religion (f) spritus Mundi.

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C. Match the column A with column B selecting the right option:-

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(a) widenig

(i) gyre

(b) rough

(ii) gaze

(iii) beast

(d) image

(iv) vast

(a)(a)-(i) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iii) (d)-(iv)

(b)(a)-(i) (b)-(iii ) (c)-(ii) (d)-(iv)

(d)(a)-(iv) (b)-(i) (c)-(ii) (d)-(iii)

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(a) falcon

(i ) spiral

(b) gyre

(ii) walk lazy manner

(iii) merlin

(d) vast

(iv) huge

(a)(a)-(i) (b)-(iv ) (c)-(iii) (d)-(ii)

(b)(a)-(iii) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iv) (d)-(i)

(d)(a)-(iv) (b)-(iii) (c)-(i) (d)-(ii )

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(a) conviction

(i ) purity

(b) anarchy

(ii) disorder

(iii) celebration

(d) innocence

(iv) faith

(a)(a)-(i) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iii) (d)-(iv)

(b)(a)-(i) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iv) (d)-(iii)

(d)(a)-(iv) (b)-(ii) (c)-(iii) (d)-(i )

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(a) falcon

(i ) symbol of christianity

(b) falconer

(ii) birth place of christ

(iii) symbol of christ

(d) spiritus Mundi

(iv) world spirit

(a)(a)-(i) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iii) (d)-(iv)

(b)(a)-(i) (b)-(iii) (c)-(ii) (d)-(iv)

(d)(a)-(iv) (b)-(iii) (c)-(ii) (d)-(i)

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(a) lack

(i ) darkness

(b) passionate

(ii) Enthusiastic

(iii) Latin phrase

(d) spiritus Mundi

(iv) absence

(a)(a)-(i) (b)-(ii ) (c)-(iii) (d)-(iv)

(b)(a)-(i) (b)-(iii) (c)-(ii) (d)-(iv)

(d)(a)-(iv) (b)-(ii) (c)-(i) (d)-(iii)

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D. Choose the correct option:-

(46) Assertion(A) :- The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Reason(R) :- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

(a) both A and R are false.