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Answer 1

Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal.
“A very worthy person, a true lover of this country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He… conceived that the want of venison might well be supplied by the bodies of young lads and maidens… so great a number of both sexes in every country being now ready to starve…”

What is Swift’s main point in this passage?

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True patriots are in agreement with his stated proposal
The well-off have no real concern for starving children
Young, poor children are an overlooked food source
There is a great concern over the lack of available venison