Swiftly Mastering Satire
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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?

  • 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?

  • 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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