Bio/Historical

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