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What is the main purpose of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal?
What is the main purpose of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal?
- To criticize the English for eating Irish people
- To mock human folly and stupidity
- To express concern for lowly folk
- To suggest that Irish babies be fattened for sale (correct)
What is the main focus of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy?
What is the main focus of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy?
- A critique of the 18th Century aristocracy
- An elegy for lowly folk
- A series of loosely organized funny episodes in Shandy's life (correct)
- A story of a young foundling
What is the subject of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock?
What is the subject of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock?
- A critique of classical school rules
- A story of a young foundling
- A satire on human pettiness
- A fight over a lock of hair (correct)
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