your answers to Questions 5-6 on the passage and on your knowledge of social studies: Rudyard Kipling was a British short-story writer, poet and novelist. Considered one of the most popular writers in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kipling eventually won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865. During this time India was under British control and many young British families lived in colonies like India. His poem, White Man’s Burden, was published in a popular American magazine. The White Man’s Burden. “Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. . . .” Source: Rudyard Kipling, 1899 5. This stanza from Kipling’s poem is most closely associated with the belief that it was the duty of Western colonial powers to 1) Learn from the people they conquered. 2) Teach their colonies how to produce manufactured goods. 3) Civilize the people they controlled. 4) Welcome less developed countries as equals. 6. Based on this poem, which action would Kipling have most likely supported? 1) The British shared equal power with Indians in the colonial government in 1899. 2) The British used child labor in textile factories in India. 3) The British established coal mines and tea farms in India. 4) The British established English styled schools in India to teach Indian children.
5. This stanza from Kipling’s poem is most closely associated with the belief that it was the duty of Western colonial powers to 3) Civilize the people they controlled.
6. Based on this poem, Kipling would have most likely supported 4) The British established English-styled schools in India to teach Indian children.