Read the following excerpt from an article by a literary critic. Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar during a time of great
political upheaval. Indeed, the queen who reigned when he
crafted the play, Elizabeth I, was the daughter of a queen
whose life ended, like that of so many political figures from
the English Reformation, on the execution block.
In Julius Caesar, the character Cassius asks, after the
assassination of Caesar, "How many ages hence / Shall
this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and
accents yet unknown!" He is clearly anticipating
Shakespeare's own time.
Which statement most accurately describes the inference the author is
making and the historical context on which the inference is based?

Which excerpts from the war of the worldseffectively use setting to provide a contrast to the horror of the plot? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldshe remained standing at the edge of the pit that the thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival. the early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards weybridge, was already warm.they shouted consolation and promises, and went off back to the town again to get . one can imagine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows.it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. the burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke.an enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. the heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.