Which sentences correctly use quotations from "a modest proposal"? check all that apply.
a. “it is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars, states swift.”
b. swift asserts that whoever finds “a fair, cheap and easy method” for solving the overwhelming issue of poverty in england would deserve to have “his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.”
c. swift claims that his proposal would be profitable because no wealthy gentleman would think twice about paying ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child.
d. swift explains that his proposal would bring relief to impoverished parents because they would “be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.”
e. “this would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either encouraged by rewards, or enforced by laws and penalties,” writes swift about his proposal.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

What is the best way to punctuate the bolded portion of the sentence? do you see the kite floating in the air? the father asked the young child. “do you see the kite floating in the air”? the ‘do you see the kite floating in the air? ’ the do you see the kite floating in the air? the “do you see the kite floating in the air? ” the

Both adam smith and ayn rand would agree th o individuals and businesses want what benefits them the most. society benefits when people want what is best for everyone. individuals become wealthy because of actions by the government. society benefits when individuals agree to sacrifice to others. c