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: 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.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: A mostly fabricated discussion of a rainy burial in this work follows a scene in which one character unsettles the protagonist with her burning eyes, which that protagonist describes as feral, in a darkened room he had come to looking to assault a man after embarrassingly arriving an hour early to a dinner. That man, an inheritor who the protagonist criticizes for peasant girl-related debauchery, mirrors a military man who earlier prompts the main character to purchase a beaver collar, for which he borrows money from Anton, his boss. The narrator is obsessed with the phrase two and two is four and clashes with Ferfichkin and Simonov over a going-away party for Zverkov, which prompts a trip to a brothel and later an exchange with the vulture-like Apollon. The kindly prostitute Liza is ultimately spurned by, FTP, the protagonist of what early existentialist novel consisting of the titular correspondences, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This man "and the Creation of a Superpower" and "Memories of" this man form the titles of two of his biographies written by his son. He opened up new land in the Altay region for farming during his Virgin Lands Campaign, and created regional Economic Councils in an effort to decentralize. After secretly giving a report entitled On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences to the so-called Congress of Victors, he advocated breaking the ice during his namesake thaw. He also oversaw the military intervention during the Hungarian Revolution and formed the Warsaw Pact. Also famous for overseeing the launch of Sputnik I, stationing nuclear weapons in Cuba, banging his shoe on a desk during a Security Council meeting, and holding the Kitchen Debate with Richard Nixon, this is, FTP, which Soviet leader who was overthrown by Brezhnev and succeeded Stalin

SOLUTION:
History