History Writing versus Historical Fiction

What is the definition of  history writing?

• is nonfiction that presents events and people of the past.
• is fiction that presents characters in the past.
• is a type of biography
• It is a novel written before technology

What are the qualities historical fiction?

• It is set in the distant past.
• It is a novel written before the twentieth century.
• It tells the life story of a real person from the past.
• It combines real historical events and imaginary characters or events.

In a historical fiction, characters are...

• Real people who experienced the event
• Characters made up by the author
• A combination of real people who witnessed the event and characters made up by the author 
• Characters who have red hair

In history writing, the plot...

• takes actual historical events and places them on a plotline
• is made up by the author of the story to interest the readers
• is a list of facts always given in descriptive order
• places imaginary characters in real-life situations. 

Historical fiction zooms in on one specific event.

• True
• False