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Which of the following statements regarding the Scriblerus Club and its literary objectives are CORRECT? I. Founded in 1714, the club's core members included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, and Viscount Bolingbroke. II. The fictional persona of Martinus Scriblerus, a pretentious and talentless scholar, had a name inspired by Sir Martin Mar-all, a comic figure in the work of John Dryden. III. The primary focus of the club was to promote Whig ideology and support the rise of the realistic epistolary novel pioneered by Samuel Richardson. IV. The club's collaborative satirical ethos served as the inspiration for major 18th-century works such as Gulliver's Travels, The Dunciad, and The Beggar's Opera. V. The term 'Scriblerus' was adopted as a laudatory title intended to celebrate the intellectual depth and sophisticated learning of professional 18th-century 'scribblers.' Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: