A Modest Proposal and Other Satires Quiz 3
1. According to Swift's narrator, who are the “chief breeders” of the British empire?
- the English Protestants
- the English Catholics
- the Irish Protestants
- the Irish Catholics
2. Who does Swift's narrator mean when he refers to “popish infants”?
- The babies of the Pope
- English babies
- Irish Catholic babies
- Protestant babies
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