The correct answer is: B. too many Irish living in poverty.
In his recognized essay, A Modest Proposal, Swift tackles the terrible social problem that Ireland was suffering: poverty and, with it, the heavy prejudice against poor people that social inequality had generated. Using a rather unusual approach to shock the audience (suggesting that poor parents should sell their kids in the meat market or even eat them), he engages the subject head-on.
#4 would be your answer, because he's being tested against all of these forces
the answer would be frown. happy, frown, and grin are similes to smile, and frown is an antonym. break is an antonym for repair, meaning frown is the correct answer.
