WorksheetsBio/Historical
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 4mins
Which was not a key historical event in the history behind "Animal Farm"?
The Czar was overthrown
The famine known as the Holodomor
When Vladimir Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over
The civil war of 1917
Who originally wrote Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare
Arthur Brooke
Luigi Da Porto
Masuccio Salernitano
Biographical criticism is based on...
how the author views their work
how the author views the reader
how the work is effected by the author's life
how the author's life is effected by their work
Shakespeare was considered by Dr. Samuel Johnson to be a poet of...
Philosophy
Words
Tragedy
Confusion
Nature
Historical criticism was founded by...
Giovanni Boccaccio
Shakespeare
Richard Simon
Leonardo Da Vinci
Which is not a key feature of Historical Literary Criticism?
The relevance of history to the work
History's relationship with the work
The works influence on history
The work's effect on the future
Was Romeo and Juliet based on a true story?
True
False
Biographical literary criticism was founded by...
Albert Camus
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Richard Simon
As a biographical critic, you should approach an author's work from the perspective of ____________
Their biography
Their bibliography
Their literary work
None
What kind of critic was Dr. Samuel Johnson described as?
Harsh critic
Normal critic
Moral critic
Was Samuel Johnson a fan of Shakespeare's writting?
Yes
Meh
No
