Which statement from the text best displays swift's general sense of ethnic ambiguity?
a) whatever was his birth, his education was irish.
b) during his life the place of his birth was undetermined.
eliminate
c) the question may, without much regret, be left in the obscurity in which he delighted to involve it.
d) he was contented to be called an irishman by the irish; but would occasionally call himself an englishman.