TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: In this novel, one source of religious authority is the towns vicar Parson Irwine, who cares for his invalid sister Anne. The title character is loved by Mary Burge, the daughter of his employer, and studies with a schoolmaster named Bartle Massey. Set in the town of Hayslope at the end of the 18th century, it features a Methodist preacher named Dinah Morris who eventually marries the title character after the woman he loves is sentenced to death for murdering her illegitimate child. FTP, name this work which features Arthur Donnithorne and Hetty Sorrel, the first novel written by George Eliot, whose title character is an upstanding carpenter.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This philosopher argued for a hybrid approach of historical materialism and psychoanalysis that he termed the "progressive-regressive method." He used the example of a man that fails to meet his friend after walking into a cafe to illustrate the second title concept of one of his works. This man densely analyzed the life of Gustave Flaubert in his book length study The Family Idiot. His short treatise (*) Search for a Method recapitulates themes of another of his books, which calls humanity a "fused group." This author of Critique of Dialectical Reason argued that the object of consciousness exists as "in-itself," but experience exists "for itself" in a book that argues the authentic life is one way to escape the grip of "bad faith." For 10 points, name this existentialist author of Being and Nothingness.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This man wrote a story in which one character becomes a loan shark in hope of gaining Captain Kidd's treasure from a swamp, and in one of his stories two characters vie for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Many of this man's stories are collected in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and he wrote one story about a man who plays nine-pins with ghosts in the Catskills before falling asleep for twenty years. The author of a story in which Brom Bones impersonates a dead Hessian to scare schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, for 10 points, name this author of "Rip van Winkle" who wrote about the "headless horseman" in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

SOLUTION:
Literature