Multiple Choice
Why did Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" advocate butchering Irish children?
A) To reduce the poverty of the Irish
B) To satirize the English treatment of the Irish
C) To decrease the number of Irish Protestants
D) To persuade the Irish poor to migrate to America
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