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: The Providers order that Al-lith marry Ben Ata in one of this author's works, which is the second part of a series that ends with Krolgul and Klorathy returning to Shammat. In addition to The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, both part of this author's Canopus in Argos series, this author wrote about the birth of Ben to Harriet and David Lovatt in The Fifth Child and the cat-dog Hugo that accompanies Emily Cartwright in Memoirs of a Survivor. More well known works by this author include one in which Moses kills Mary, the wife of Dick Turner, and one in which stories from Anna Wulf's life are interspersed with excerpts from the novel Free Women. For 10 pointsname this author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One composer from this country completed two parts of a projected thirteen-work cycle based on Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil. One man from this country, which is not the Czech Republic, abandoned his opera Roussalka upon being diagnosed with neurasthenia. A Baroque music ensemble led by William Christie takes its name from an opera by another composer from here, and this country names the augmented sixth chord that contains the unaltered second scale degree. One composer from this country used "non-retrogradable" rhythms in the first and sixth movements of his best-known chamber work. That composer also theorized seven (*) "modes of limited transposition" in his book The Technique of My Musical Language and include statue, flower, and love themes in an orchestral work that prominently features the ondes Martenot. Another work by that composer from here contains the "Abyss of the Birds" movement and was composed in a prisoner-of-war camp. For 10 points, name this country, the birthplace of the composer of the Turangalila-Symphonie and the Quartet for the End of Time.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This man wrote over 150 compositions featuring the baryton, and his Mourning Symphony in E minor was played at his funeral. He transposed his Piano Trio in F sharp minor for the theme to the second movement of his Symphony No. 102 in B flat major, a performance of which gave the nickname to Symphony No. 96, his Miracle Symphony. The 2/4 andante second movement of another symphony begins with a tranquil melody in C major, but on beat 2 of measure 16 the phrase ends with a loud G major chord, and the final movement of another sees the musicians leave one by one. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Surprise Symphony and Farewell Symphony.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts