Question

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Complete the sentences based on your reading of this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift: For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate. The "principal breeders" of the nation refer to . In the last line, the writer talks about the "good Protestants" to .

Answer 1

In his A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick (mostly known as A modest proposal) Jonathan Swift satirizes the heartless attitudes towards the poor. The "principal breeders" of the nation refer to Catholics, who were known for having numerous offspring. In the last line, the writer talks about the "good Protestants", that is to say, Irish protestants who had left the country.