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.

This author's short stories include one about doctor who offers water from the Fountain of Youth and another based off John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. This author of ""Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"" and ""The Celestial Railroad"" also wrote many stories set in Puritan New England, including ""Young Goodman Brown. "" He also wrote a novel featuring such characters as the minister Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Hester Prynne. For 10 points, name this American author of The Scarlet Letter.
Literature

The column of Bertin is located in this organ, which is surrounded by a fascia named for Gerota. Children may experience minimal change disease in this organ. Collagen disorders like Alport Syndrome and Goodpasture's Syndrome affect this organ's basement membrane, and it's also the site of Wilms' tumors. This organ and the liver are the site of gluconeogenesis. The GFR is a measurement of its function. This organ falls into the pelvis in a condition which causes it to "float". Calcitriol and erythropoietin are synthesized by this organ, which secretes renin to increase blood pressure. Bowman's capsule surrounds this organ's glomerulus, and countercurrent exchange in its loop of Henle improves its filtration effficiency. For 10 points, name this paired organ composed of nephrons.
Science

In the book from which it was adapted, the character in this opera who claims to be impoverished student Gualtier Mald was originally Franois I, king of France. However, censors wouldn't allow such an overtly political statement, and further denied use of the proposed title "The Curse. "  Also not chosen for the title was Le roi s'amuse, the title of the Victor Hugo work from which it was taken. The unhappy title character recalls a curse after his daughter is abducted, after she loses her virginity, and after she sacrifices herself to save the libertine Duke of Mantua. FTP, name this Verdi opera about a hunchbacked court jester.

Fine Arts