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AP Success - AP European History: 'The White Man's Burden' Ideology

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"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.

Take up the White Man's burden - In patience to abide To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden - The savage wars of peace - Fill full the mouth of famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch Sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought."

Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," 1900

Question 1

Multiple choice

The poem 'The White Man's Burden' by Rudyard Kipling is most closely associated with which of the following historical concepts?

Question 2

Multiple choice

Which of the following best reflects the perspective of the speaker in 'The White Man's Burden' regarding the people they are colonizing?

Question 3

Multiple choice

The phrase 'savage wars of peace' in the poem 'The White Man's Burden' most likely refers to which of the following?

Question 4

Multiple choice

The call to 'Fill full the mouth of famine / And bid the sickness cease' in Kipling's poem suggests that imperialists believed they had a responsibility to:

Question 5

Multiple choice

The tone of 'The White Man's Burden' and its portrayal of colonial subjects would most likely have been used by anti-imperialists to:

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