Think you’ve got your head wrapped around A Modest Proposal? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who is described here? "A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme."
The knowing American
Jonathan Swift
The famous Psalmanazar
A well-fed Irishman
Q. Which group will pay a steep price to eat kids, since "they have already devoured most of the parents"?
Landlords
Beggars
Politicians
Farmers
Q. Which country is described here? "For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it."
Ireland
England
Lilliput
America
Q. The narrator estimates that there are about "one hundred and twenty thousand" of which group?
Swine
Edible children
Poor parents
Tenants
Q. Who is described here? "I desire those […] who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old in the manner I prescribe."
Landlords
Cottagers
Politicians
Iron chefs