The speaker meant from the excerpt “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats when he asks about a “rough beast” that “slouches towards Bethlehem to be born” is he asks about the changes Christianity will need to make in the modern world. The answer is letter B. Yeats intended to depict the upcoming apocalypse with heavy citation from the Book of Revelation. He said that we have now entered the edge of the gyre spiraling inward, the center of emptiness and chaos and the division of democracy, peace and science. And from there came a beast that will cleanse the world and create a new world.