The correct answers are B) Then, amid a murmur, of laughter and jeers from the Roman Benches immediately before him, he began to sing. D) it was all simple and childlike, but it went to the hearts of the Olympians, for it spoke of the land which they knew and loved.
In this excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Contest,” the sentences that most clearly describe historical elements are "Then, amid a murmur, of laughter and jeers from the Roman Benches immediately before him, he began to sing. And it was all simple and childlike, but it went to the hearts of the Olympians, for it spoke of the land which they knew and loved.
When an author uses historical fiction to write its stories, the author takes true elements of the history to change them or adapt them to create new stories. It could be characters, places, events, or incidents, and adapt them into a new context. That is the case of "The Contest," a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1910 and published in the New York-Tribune on February 12, 1911.