Why Did Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" Advocate Butchering

question 38

Multiple Choice

Why did Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" advocate butchering Irish children?

• A)To reduce the poverty of the Irish
• B)To satirize the English treatment of the Irish
• C)To decrease the number of Irish Protestants
• D)To persuade the Irish poor to migrate to America

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