Question 55
MediumOriginal questionWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into by narrow walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country .
By "where knowledge is free", the poet most likely means a place where
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Every line of the poem is about the mind being free: without fear, led by reason, open to "ever-widening thought".
So "free" knowledge is knowledge open to everyone, that no one is kept from, not knowledge without a price.
Worth noting
Books without payment and schools without fees read "free" as "costing nothing". The poem is about freedom, not about money.
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