How Well Did You Understand Swift"s "A Modest Proposal"?
Here are the answers to the Reading Quiz on "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
- (C) female beggars accompanied by children
- (A) one year
- (D) preventing voluntary abortions
- (B) lessening the number of papists (i.e., Roman Catholics)
- (B) ten shillings
- (E) encouraging young children to mind their manners and obey their parents
- (A) It will reduce the number of people in the kingdom.
- (C) putting children to work at a young age
- (C) in England
- (A) His youngest child is nine years old, and his wife is beyond child-bearing age.
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