How many men were involved in chopping down the banyan tree?

Twenty men

Fifty men

Seventy men

Thirty men

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B. Fifty men

The correct answer is 'Fifty men'. The poem explicitly mentions fifty men working to chop down the tree, symbolizing the scale of destruction.

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