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.

[EX Q]: In one novel by this author, the title character dances with Barbra Flick while choosing not to pursue the tanner Emil Rothfuss's wife. This author of Knulp wrote about Joseph Knecht's pursuit of the role of Magister Ludi in the title intellectual game, and described a journey undertaken with Govinda in search for the Buddha in another novel. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about the saxophonist Pablo bringing Hermine to the Magic Theatre, causing Harry Haller to stab her. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: Hans-Georg Gadamer argued that the ideal described in this work is heuristic in nature in an essay about this work's author "and the poets. " Books six and seven of this work assert that knowledge is ultimately for the Good, which shines on intelligible essences like the sun. It asserts that love is "a tyrant" over man, and compares imaginative, real, intelligent, and abstract levels of thought to a line divided into four segments. In its first book, Thrasymachus describes justice as "the advantage of the stronger," while its seventh book likens people unaware of Forms to humans viewing shadows on the wall of a cave. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue that describes an ideal society.
[EX A]: Social Science

[EX Q]: This composer was given the task of improvising on a ""Royal Theme"" provided to him by a monarch, which eventually resulted in his piece The Musical Offering. The fifth part of another work by this composer contains a solo for virtuoso harpsichord. That work was written for the (*) margrave of a certain city. For 10 points, name this German composer whose works include the organ piece Toccata and Fugue in D minor, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Brandenburg Concertos.
[EX A]:
Fine Arts