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Read the excerpt from Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and answer the question.

Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country . . . : Of quitting our animosities and factions . . . : Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants.

In this excerpt, Swift briefly drops the satirical mask to reveal .

important lessons from Ireland's past
real solutions for Ireland's poverty-stricken
further uses of the poor for Ireland's benefit
long-held grudges against Ireland's government

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