Question

Read the paragraph and "The Second Coming" and answer the question.

Author Chinua Achebe named his famous memoir, Things Fall Apart, referencing Yeats' poem. The book's protagonist, Okonkwo, is a fearless but flawed man who stubbornly clings to tradition as he helplessly watches the growing influences of modern society effect unavoidable change in his small African village.

The Second Coming
by W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
10 Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
15 A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
20 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Which excerpt from the poem suggests the inevitably of the result Okonkwo fears?

A.) "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; "
B.) "The ceremony of innocence is drowned; "
C.) "Surely some revelation is at hand; "
D.) "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,"

Answer 1

''And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,"

Explanation: Inevitabley means something that is guaranteed to come, predictable and you're expecting it. Plus the answer above is incorrect on Oddyesy as for I tried it and it came out to be incorrect.

Answer 2

The excerpt from the poem that suggests the inevitability of the result Okonkwo fears is "The ceremony of innocence is drowned; "

Step-by-step explanation:

The biggest fear of Okonkwo is to see the traditions and beliefs as well as the kind of life that mane ancestors preserved in African villages doomed because of modernization and influence of cities and the new kind of life, the sentence "The ceremony of innocence is drowned " talks about how this invasion is destroying everything that was natural and sacred.