1. What can you tell about Britons and their language? 2

71. What did Alexander Pope have in common with Martin Scriblerus? 
72. In what way did Defoe begin his literary career? 
73. What was Defoe’s satire in verse “The True -born Englishman “ about? 
74. What novels by Daniel Defoe do you know? 
75. What suggested the idea for the novel “Robinson Crusoe” to Defoe? 
76. What is the main theme of the novel? 
77. Speak about the characteristic features of Robinson Crusoe. 
78. What helped Robinson to withstand all the calamities of his unusual destiny? 
79. Do you think it is possible for a man to spend so many years on a desert island? 
80. Why do we say that the way Defoe portrays Friday’s character does him credit? 
81. What is your opinion of “The Education of Women”?
82. What role did Sir William Temple play in Swift’s literary career? 
83. Speak about Swift’s first satire. 
84. What did Swift criticize in his pamphlets? 
85. When was Swift’s masterpiece “Gulliver’s Travels” written and why did it make a great 
sensation? 
86. Whom did Swift mean to ridicule when describing the country of Lilliput and the 
Lilliputians? 
87. At whom is Swift’s satire directed when he describes the flying island and the way taxes 
are collected from the people? 
88. What was Swift’s attitude towards England’s war policy? 
89. Why did Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” become popular in all languages? 
90.  ... is the first masterpiece or foundation stone in all British literature. Whom is the 
following sentence written by and in what work? 
91. “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk 
and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” 
92.  John Milton’s most famous works are: ... 
93. How many lines does a sonnet consist of? 

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94. What poet does the following stanza belong to? 
And we will sit upon the rocks, 
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, 
By shallow rivers to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals. 
95. What poetry do the following lines belong to? 
Come live with me and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures prove 
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, 
Or woods, or steepy mountain yields.