Base your answer to question 30 on the speakers’

statements below and on your knowledge of social

studies.

Speaker A: The British East India Company does

not respect my beliefs. I cannot follow

dharma and remain their soldier. I will

return to my family in a Tamil village.

Speaker B: My rebellious countrymen cannot accept

my new religion and so they hate me and

my “foreign devil” friends. The

missionaries leave Beijing tomorrow for

England. I must join them before the

church compound is surrounded.

Speaker C: The czar’s soldiers came again today,

looted our village, drove off our

livestock, and trampled anyone in their

way. They even burned our synagogue.

Our way of life is gone. It is time to

emigrate to Palestine.

What is the primary focus of these speakers?

(1) civil war

(2) economic reforms

(3) religious persecution

(4) colonial oppression