Question

Read the following passage:

The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.
To what real-world problem from Swift's time is the narrator referring?
A. Livestock deaths due to disease
B. The extremely low value of the English pound
C. Poor management of Irish lands by English lords
D. The poor work ethic of farmers in Ireland

Answer 1

C. Poor management of Irish lands by English lords.(Apex)

Answer 2

C. Poor management of Irish lands by English lords

Step-by-step explanation:

A modest proposal is a satiric novel written by Johnatan Swift in England in 1729, in this he makes a satire of how the British misstreated the Irish and how they´d be better off selling their offspring for food to the English man than working and paying taxes to them.