Worksheets"The Second Coming" Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The metaphor of the falcon not being able to hear the falconer means:
Yeats is a terrible hunter
The best method for finding the enemy in warfare
Things are spiraling out of control
Nature is ignorant to change
The line, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” has the following political implication:
Resources are being spent too quickly.
The old order is collapsing
Yeats thinks his government has gone insane
Power will remain in the same hands
“Surely some revelation is at hand / Surely the second coming is at hand” is an example of:
Irony
Parallel structure
Enjambment
Pun
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” means:
The “good” people of the world are powerless, while the “bad” people are powerful.
The “good” guys lack the ability to fight, while the “bad” guys have weapons.
The “good” countries lack leadership to do what is right, while the “bad” countries rise up to conquer.
The “good” guys are never convicted of crimes while the “bad” guys always lose.
The Spiritus Mundi is:
A central memory than connects all people who can tune into it
Christ
Anti-Christ
The spirit of the desert
“A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun” is an example of:
Metaphor
Simile
Enjambment
Allusion
The line “while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds” reveals:
The animals are oblivious to the changes in the world
The animals sense a change for the worse
The animals sense a change for the better
The new messiah will be a bird
Where will the new messiah be born?
Jerusalem
Canaan
Bethlehem
Rome
What shape will the new messiah take?
a falcon
a sphinx
a baby in a manger
a world war
What cycle or gyre does Yeats describe in this poem?
The cycle of order and growth and then chaos and death followed by order and growth.
The cycle of death followed by chaos followed by more death.
The cycle of life followed by growth followed by more life.
The cycle of democracy followed by communism and then fascism.
