Read the following poem and answer the questions given below:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary 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 awake. – Rabindranath Tagore
1. Who is called ‘My Father’ here?
2. Which knowledge is preferred by the poet?
3. Where has the clear stream of a reason not lost its way?
4. For what do people stretch their arms?
5. What divides the world into fragments?
6. How can people achieve perfection?
Choose from the stanza the words that mean:
7. The continuous movement of a liquid.
8. Trying very hard.
9. Small pieces that have broken off from a larger part.
