Historical context refers to the "back story" of the setting within your story. Historical context is knowing what situations pertain in the time period of, once again, the story being read.
<span><span>identify the sources of quotations and ideas for citing your sources later (giving credit to your sources).</span>find sources again if you need them.<span>make your works cited (a list of the sources from which you used borrowed material in your project).</span></span>
The question that is most clearly analytical in nature is C. why did the author decide to start in the middle of the action?
A and D are not so analytical, as all you have to do is count the mistakes or chapters. B is also not analytical because you can just retell what happened. But C is analytical because you have to analyze the author's motives behind his decision to start the story in the middle of the action.