In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Question: In one story, a goddess was persuaded by a fox to sleep with this figure, and she subsequently fathered eight gods who could cure eight different body parts. This deity was sometimes known as the "Lord of semen," and in one story his semen caused seven different types of plants to sprout from the earth. This figure asked a sun god to make footprints in the ground so that he could fill them with water, giving life to a barren island called Dilmun. This figure saved humanity by warning Atrahasis of a coming flood and, in another story, the misfortunes of humans were a result of a contest between this figure and Ninhursag. This figure causes a confusion of tongues in a speech to Enmerkar, and he was sometimes represented as half-goat and half-fish. Commonly called the "Lord of Abzu," this figure ruled from the city of Eridu and in one story was seduced by the goddess Inanna. For 10 points, identify this Sumerian deity of knowledge, fertility, and water, who was later identified with the Babylonian Ea.

Answer: Social Science


Question: In this novel, Lebezyatnikov exposes another character after he slips a hundred-ruble note in a girl's pocket. This novel's protagonist refuses copying work given to him by his university friend Razumikhin, and he also receives a letter from his mother Pulkheria telling of his sister's engagement to Luzhin. Porfiry Petrovich mistakenly (*) investigates a pair of painters in this novel, not long after Alyona Ivanova and Lizaveta are found murdered. For ten points, identify this novel in which the creepy Svidrigailov and prostitute Sonya make the acquaintance of Raskolnikov, who murdered a pawnbroker with an axe, a work of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Answer: Literature


Question: This work compares being "in a slough of foul and filthy lusts" to being "kept down by the lusts of an unclean swine" in showing that unrighteousness degrades humanity. A Latin pun along the lines of "The sole power which can see all is justly to be called the solar" is used to illustrate the power of God in a section that ends asking "Why do ye sluggards turn your backs When the earth is overcome, the stars are yours. " One figure claims the siren Fortune has "preserved her own constancy by her very change. " It opens with the title figure angrily asking "Who has suffered these seducing mummers to approach this sick man" when she sees the Muse of poetry encouraging the narrator to write gloomy songs. The narrator bewails how he saved Paulinus and Albinus and opened himself to the persecutions of Conigastus and Trigulla, favorites of Theodoric. Written during its author's imprisonment in 524, for 10 points, name this work of Boethius.

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Social Science