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moongchi · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

What was the general idea of Thomas Babington Macaulay's educational policy for Britain's Indian subjects?

a. We should produce a class that is Indian in blood and color but English in taste and intellect.
b. If you lift up the poor, they become better manual laborers.
c. Do not try to educate poor Indians, for it is an impossible task.
d. Education beyond the basics will serve to incite rebellion.
e. We need English-educated Indian soldiers to help us fight insurrection in Africa.

Question 2

In his famous poem The White Man's Burden, Rudyard Kipling expressed the idea that whites

a. greatly suffered from the cruelty of African native tribes when they were captured.
b. were never really recompensed for the loss of their colonies after the end of colonialism.
c. were more susceptible to native African diseases and therefore experienced greater mortality.
d. carried the economic cost of infrastructure development in their former colonies.
e. had a moral responsibility to lift Africans from a state of lower societal development.