Question

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child. On which false premise does this excerpt rely? that a woman would be willing to pay her landlord rent that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell that a woman would be willing to keep the children she bears that a woman would be willing to take over her landlord’s business

Answer 1

B:that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell

Answer 2

The false premise on which this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" relies is that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell.

In "A Modest Proposal", Jonathan Swift writes about how Ireland is suffering for being under British rule. He writes about how impoverished couples have trouble feeding their children. Mothers have to beg on the streets carrying their children with them. To avoid this, Swift suggests that women should breastfeed their children till the age of one and then sell them to rich English landowners as food. Swift does not want Irish mother to sell their children, this is a satire in which humor and irony are used.