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: A character created by this author socializes with Billy through sex with Billy's sister Trudy. In a story by this author, one character achieves masculinity by shooting a lion right before he is shot by his wife; that story features a triangle between Margot, Wilson, and Francis Macomber. His works often feature the theme of "nada" and follow the iceberg theory in omitting detail. He created a character who escapes the battle police and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, and he quoted Gertrude Stein on the Lost Generation for one novel's epitaph. For 10 points, name this writer who created Frederic Henry and Jake Barnes in A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In one story, this man saved the town of Gubbio by making a pact with an attacking wolf. After spending time as a Perugian captive, he saw a vision of a hall full of cross-marked armor, which encouraged him to travel to Apulia. After 40 days' fasting on the mountain La Verna, he saw a six-winged seraph, after which he received the stigmata, according to his namesake Fioretti. He praised Sister Death, Brother Fire, and Brother Moon in his Canticle of the Sun, and was credited with inventing the Nativity creche scene. For 10 points, identify this Catholic patron saint of animals, the founder of a namesake group whose first two orders are the Poor Clares and the Friars Minor.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: One of this author's works depicts Anguish planting her black flag on the speaker's bowed skull and begins by describing "when the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid / on the groaning spirit." In another of his poems, the title "kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed, / Pathetically let their great white wings / Drag beside them like oars" as sailors capture them. This author of "Litanies of Satan" and "The Albatross" opened one collection with a poem addressing the "hypocrite reader," which hails a type of boredom called ennui. For 10 points, name this French Symbolist poet, who included poems called "Spleen" in his collection Les Fleurs du mal.

SOLUTION:
Literature