Historical Criticism

Historical Criticism

9th Grade - University

8 Qs

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Historical Criticism

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9th Grade - University

Hard

Created by

Karan Badhwar

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is Historical Criticism?

Uncovers intellectual, social, and cultural background.

Recreating the original intent and meaning.

Strictly related to historical and religious texts.

A study of the author's milieu and biography.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Does historical criticism include formal literary studies(creative writing)? True or False

False

True

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is a philosophy of historical criticism?

The past effects the author's choice of setting.

It aligns with lower criticism.

Literature shapes history.

History shapes literature.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Biblical criticism is not a form of historical criticism, True or False

True

False

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which groups opposed Historical Criticism?

Marxists

Feminists

Protestants

Liberationists

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is a property of New Historicism?

The Derridean view

The Freudian Philosophy

Newton's Third Law of Motion

None of the others

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Foucault was an ardent supporter of which historicism philosophy?

Old Historicism

New Historicism

Traditional Hisoricism

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A historical critic would think Hamlet's character is based on...

Julius Caesar

King Charles the I

Shakespeare's life

Shakespeare himself