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.

In the aria Mal reggendo, one character in this opera relates how a strange voice stopped his hand from killing his opponent in a duel in Act 1. The arias Di due figli and Abbietta zingara are used by one character to narrate a ghost story to a gathering which is dispersed by the ringing of a bell. In Prima che d'altri vivere, the protagonist bids farewell to his lover after she poisons herself. After the first act in which Ferrando conjures the image of a baby burnt alive on a pyre, Chi del gitano i giorni abbella, or the Anvil Chorus, is sung by a group of gypsies. After the death of Leonora, the mother of Azucena is avenged when Count di Luna orders the execution of the title character Manrico. FTP, name this opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
Fine Arts

After watching a boxing match between two angry dwarves, Dan Moore yells Jesus was once a leper! in one story in this collection. In addition to Box Seat, it includes stories about Esther, who loves the mystic King Barlo, and Becky, who is shunned for bearing mulatto sons. Another story in it describes Seventh Street, which infuses black reddish blood into the white and whitewashed wood of Washington, and a white mob burns Tom Burwell alive for killing Bob Stone in its story Blood-Burning Moon. Its authors time in rural Georgia inspired its final section, Kabnis. Beginning with a story describing the beauty of Karintha and a poem about the Black Reapers of the title plant, FTP, name this modernist collection of short stories and poems by Jean Toomer.
Literature

During the decline of this empire, King Hyspaosines broke away to found a small kingdom called Characene, and at the age of eighty, Sanatruces was made king of this empire by the Sacaraucae Scythians. The city of Nisa served as the burial ground of this empire's kings, who were descended from the Parni people. This empire agreed to open the Silk Road with their Chinese contemporaries, the Han, under King Mithridates II. Tigranes the Great took advantage of this empire's weakness to expand his own lands, and at the Battle of Golpayegan this empire's last ruler, Artabanus IV, was killed by the forces of Ardashir I. This empire's all cavalry army annihilated a Roman force at the Battle of Carrhae and killed Crassus, and earlier its founder, Arsaces, had proclaimed their independence from the Seleucids. For 10 points, name this Persian empire which often fought Rome and was defeated and succeeded by the Sassanids.

History