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Question 1

Which sentences correctly use quotations from "A Modest Proposal"? Choose three correct answers.

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Swift asserts that whoever finds “a fair, cheap and easy method” for solving the overwhelming issue of poverty in England would deserve to have “his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.”; “This would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either encouraged by rewards, or enforced by laws and penalties,” writes Swift about his proposal.; Swift explains that his proposal would bring relief to impoverished parents because they would “be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.”

Question 2

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children, by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. Which statement best describes how irony is used in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Swift states that he is speaking from “the sincerity in [his] heart.”

Question 3

Which activities support the central idea about financial planning? Choose three correct answers.

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purchasing stock in a growing company; investing extra money to earn interest; saving money in a piggy bank

Question 4

Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet . Hamlet: Let me see.—[ Takes the skull .]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. The main topic of the passage is

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death.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else? No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them. How does the speaker use reasoning in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He uses deductive reasoning to arrive at a specific conclusion about the training required to learn a skill.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. Marcellus: What! has this thing appear’d again to-night? Bernardo: I have seen nothing. Marcellus: Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; What is the effect of this dialogue?

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It creates an air of suspense in the plot.

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