6.2 Missionary SAQ

Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

EXCERPT FROM AN END-OF-YEAR EXAM GIVEN TO AFRICAN STUDENTS ATTENDING MISSIONARY SCHOOLS IN GERMAN TOGO, WEST AFRICA, 1909

Geography. • Name the large states of Europe and their capitals. • What are the names of Germany’s most important mountains? • What are the names of Germany’s most important rivers and in what direction do they run?

Essay writing. • What good things have the Europeans brought us?

Reading. • Students have to read aloud an article from The Little Book of the Three Kaisers [a children’s book containing biographies of German rulers].

Arithmetic. • In 1906 Togo exported copra [dried coconut, used to make coconut oil, a machine lubricant] worth 8,000 marks. In 1907, it exported copra worth 11,000 marks. What was the percent increase in exports?

REMEMBER: In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.

Identify ONE economic development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provides a context for understanding the Arithmetic question in the passage.

Explain how ONE political development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a context for understanding the examination questions in the passage.

Explain ONE way in which colonized peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reacted to the ideas referenced in the passage.