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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. What does the passage from Kipling's "White Man's Burden" most likely mean?

AThat the people they conquered were evil and old
BThat the people they conquered were innocent and mischievous
CThat the people they conquered were ignorant and uncivilized
DThat the people they conquered were good and noble

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This passage from Kipling's "White Man's Burden" most likely means "c. That the people they conquered were ignorant and uncivilized," since "half devil" corresponds to "uncivilized" and "half child" corresponds to "ignorant". 

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