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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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The last thing he wrote before his suicide was a story entitled "Gleanings From" his most famous work, the longest of his "palm-of-the-hand" stories. David Henry Hwang wrote this man into a theatrical adaptation of this author's House of the Sleeping Beauties, written after his novel about the twin daughters of kimono salesmen, The Old Capital. Other novels by him deal with the six-month contest between Ottake and Shusai, and with the love of Shimmamura for a northern geisha. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.
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Literature


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He adapted Joseph Blackburn's portrait d'apparat method for his works depicting a fat-looking woman with a blue book in Mrs. James Russell, Katherine Graves, an old elegant lady with a hint of a mustache in Mrs. Thomas Boylston, and a red-coated Samuel Adams. Influenced by John Smibert, his later historical works include The Death of the Earl of Chatham and The Death of Major Peirson. His The Boy with a Squirrel got him noticed, and he also painted a famous portrait of Paul Revere at his silver shop. FTP, name this American artist who depicted a dangerous incident occurring in Havana harbor in his Watson and the Shark.
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Fine Arts


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This author wrote about a group of men who bring out a dead camel and whip the animals that eat it after another character is given rusty scissors to fulfill the prophecy of ending the quarrel that divides the world in two. In another story by this author, the title character almost instantly travels a huge distance after a groom presents a team of horses and kisses the maid, (*) Rosa. A girl's parents marvel at her development and consider finding her a husband after taking a tram to the countryside and deciding to move into a smaller apartment in a story by this man who wrote of the Traveler avoiding the Condemned Man as he runs away from the Commandant's harrow, and he wrote about a man who gets injured by a thrown apple and dies in his bedroom after turning into a horrible vermin. For 10 points, name this author of "In the Penal Colony" and The Metamorphosis.
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Literature