In "A Modest Proposal" Jonathan Swift advocates butchering Irish children to

a. reduce the poverty of the Irish.
b. satirize the English treatment of the Irish.
c. decrease the number of Irish Protestants.
d. persuade the Irish poor to migrate to America.

Answer: b

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