Question

Which text is valuable for gaining context about a historical event but is unreliable as "evidence"?

Answer 1

anthology
encyclopedia
historical novel
monograph
textbook

Answer 2

C: Historical Novel
"Gone with the Wind," for example, draws the reader into feeling what it was probably like living in Georgia during the 1860s, but I would not use it as a source of authoritative information about the American Civil War. And as wonderful as "A Tale of Two Cities" is in creating the atmosphere of London and Paris during the 1780s and 1790s, it certainly cannot be viewed as "history." Nor do I think wingspanens intended us to view it as such.