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: Koussevitsky commissioned this man to write his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. He wrote an opera that opens with the arrival of Laurie Moss' graduation gown. Three ascending notes in the brass open a work by this man that debuted at tax time. He quoted folk songs like "Camptown Races" in a work that incorporates spoken-word readings of texts like the Gettysburg Address. He used themes from the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" for ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. Another of his ballets contains a "Hoe Down. " He composed Fanfare for the Common Man and the ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid. For 10 points, name this composer of Appalachian Spring.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One of this god's possessions changes from a Madjet to a Semektet daily, and this ancestor of all nine members of the Ennead was sometimes symbolized by the Bennu phoenix. This figure mixed some red beer and used it to pacify a bloodthirsty Sekhmet. This god was cured of a snakebite by Isis after he gave her the (*) secret name hidden in his body. Akhenaten replaced this deity's syncretization with the worship of Aten, and one of his epithets, Horakhty, means "Horus of the Horizons". This god rides a solar barque each night and had a center of worship at Heliopolis. For ten points, name this falcon-headed Egyptian god of the Sun.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: At the bottom center is a squirming white cat. Only two people are watching the main action -- a young child and a nude woman behind the main figure's chair. 2 groups of people mill around, commoners on the left, and Parisian gentility on the right. FTP, name this 1855 work, subtitled "A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of My Life As an Artist," painted by Gustave Courbet.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts