Tough questions

Check out the brief literary quiz at the Times (London).

The first two questions:

1 WHO HE?
Horace Walpole: “He undoubtedly wanted taste.”
Bernard Shaw: “With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise ——.”
George III: “Was there ever such stuff as great part of ——?”

2 RHETORIC
Is hypostatisation?
a. Exaggeration
b. Significant omission
c. Personification

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--Marshal Zeringue