ANSWER IS B(The actions of the colonists...)
Read the following excerpt from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
"I avoided a vast artificial hole somebody had been digging on the slope, the purpose of which I found it impossible to divine. It wasn't a quarry or a sandpit, anyhow. It was just a hole. It might have been connected with the philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do. I don't know."
Which idea about colonialism is most clearly expressed in this excerpt?
A. The prison population is far too high in the colonies
B. The actions of the colonists are foolish and ineffective
C. More tools are needed if anyone is to bring order to the colonies
D. The colonists cruelly harm human beings for no reason
