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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.

A
He states that “roasting pigs” is more difficult than roasting children.
B
He states that butchers would have a problem roasting a child “as we do roasting pigs.”
C
He states that butchers are always “wanting” for “roasting pigs.”
D
He states that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as “roasting pigs.”
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What is the author’s purpose in writing "A Modest Proposal"?

A
to submit a plan to solve an important societal issue
B
to draw attention to an issue that is plaguing his country
C
to show that only an extreme solution can fix poverty
D
to defend those who have avoided falling into poverty
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."This I freely own, and 'twas indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe, that I calculate my remedy for this one individual Kingdom of Ireland, and for no other that ever was, is, or, I think, ever can be upon Earth. Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury . . .

A
to show that his plan to sell children is the most reasonable plan that has been put forth
B
to show that society is already asking too much of wealthy individuals
C
to show that real reform is possible with reasonable sacrifice
D
to show that there are many other people who are trying to bring about reform
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"the contradiction between what is said and what is really meant"
B
"a description of something as being smaller or less than it really is"
C
"the use of humor to emphasize the negative qualities of society"
D
"an incorrect assumption that forms the basis of an argument"

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