1. How many real people are named in the opening pages of chapter one? Find out about them.

- Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, essayist and philosopher who lived in the nineteenth Century.

- George Eliot was a woman writer of the Victorian Age.

- Venerable Bede was a scholar of the eighth Century who wrote Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

- Edward Gibbon was an English scholar of the eighteenth Century.

- Christina Rossetti was a woman writer from London who wrote during the nineteenth Century.

- Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, historian and jurist who lived between the 17^th and 18^th Century.

- Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish pirate.

- John Bunyan was an English theologian and writer during the 17^th Century.

- Randolph Henry Ash was an English poet and dramatist of the 17^th Century.

2. What ideas are suggested by the following names:

- Blackadder: it is the name of a famous British comic fiction of the Eighties.

- Cropper: Steve Cropper is an American guitar player, he is also a composer.

- Wolff: Christian Wolff who is a German Philosopher.