Question

read the excerpt from anthem.
here, on this mountain, i and my sons and my chosen friends shall build our new land and our fort. and it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day. and word of it will reach every corner of the earth. and the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world’s blood to my threshold. and all my brothers, and the councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me.
the imagery of \the heart\ suggests what relationship between the society the narrator plans to build on the mountain and the outside world?
○ the new society will be restricted to the narrator’s sons and selected friends.
○ membership for the new society on the mountain will be open to anyone.
○ the narrator will establish the new society on the mountain and then will bring it to his brothers and the councils of brothers.
○ news of the new society on the mountain will gradually spread to the outside world, and the independent thinkers will come to it.

Explanation:

The "heart" imagery frames the new society as a vital, central force. The text states it will be a hidden but beating heart, with word spreading globally, and the world's "best blood" (independent thinkers) drawn to it. This matches the idea of gradual spread and attracting like-minded people, while eliminating other options: the first is too narrow, the second contradicts the "chosen friends" detail, and the third is wrong as the narrator says councils are impotent against him, not that he will bring the society to them.

Answer:

News of the new society on the mountain will gradually spread to the outside world, and the independent thinkers will come to it.