A Modest Proposal

What does Swift argue is the problem in Ireland's society?

• There aren't enough food varieties being grown​

• There are too many poor children in Ireland​.

•  There is enough food, but it is often poisoned.​

• The rich people are resorting to eating babies to survive.​

What is the satirical solution he proposes?

• People should import more meats for them to eat.​

• The poor should beg for food, so they won't starve.​

• The wealthy should buy poor people's babies for food.​

• Men should hunt for wild animals to feed their families.​

What alternate plan did his friend, the American, a "true lover of his country" suggest instead?

• They should ask America for money.​

•  They should kill the old people for food first.​

• They should hunt pre-teens to replace scarce deer meat.

• They should jail anyone begging for food.​

What religious group does he argue it will affect most when he implements his proposal?

• Jews​

• Muslims

• Catholics

• Protestants

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of his proposal?

• Poor people will have something of value.​

• Marriage will be improved​.

• The elderly will feel relief to not work anymore​.

• The nation's stock will increase.

"There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes..." What is ironic in these lines?

• He considers the babies "innocent" but not the women who are doing the murdering.

• He calls voluntary abortions and women murdering their children a "horrid practice" though his proposal suggests eating babies, but he sees no objection to that.

• He says that abortions and murder of children are "too frequent" but he later proves this to be untrue.

• He calls the children "poor" and "innocent" though they are the children of criminals so they aren't actually poor or innocent.

What is satire?

• a literary device use to compliment humanity

• a literary device used to compare

• a literary device use to make fun of or mimic a particular author or piece of work

• a literary device used to ridicule the problems in society

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What is Swift's true purpose for writing A Modest Proposal?

• to call attention to the poverty problem in Ireland, especially for children

• to enable poor mothers to ask for assistance from the government

• to quickly reduce the population in Ireland

• to encourage Irish Catholics to flee Ireland

Which of these statements is an example of understatement?

• "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half..."

• "The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared, and provided for..."

• "I can think of no one objection...against this proposal, unless it should be urged that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom."

• These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling, to beg sustenance for their helpless infants..."

What does Swift mean when he says, "The English landlords have already devoured most of the Irish parents?

• Cannibalism has been part of English culture.

• The landlords have financially devoured the Irish tenants.

• Landlords will eat tenants who cannot pay rent.

• Irish parents will not sell their children.