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.

[EX Q]: This author's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas led to his imprisonment on sodomy laws, during which time he penned De Profundis. After his release from prison, he wrote a poem containing the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves", The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This author of An Ideal Husband and Lady Windemere's Fan wrote one play in which Gwendolyn Fairfax loves the title character in part due to his name and in his only novel, this author describes the title character's destruction of a painting done by Basil Hallward. For 10 points, identify this Irish writer of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: The title character becomes engaged to two women and invites them both to lunch. This novel begins in Elk Hills, where the title character grows up under the tutelage of Doc Vickerson. While a research fellow at the McGurk Institute, the title character discovers the X Principle that might prove a cure for disease, though he learns it was already discovered at the Pasteur Institute. Mentors in this novel include Max Gottlieb and Gustave Sondelius, and the title character's wife Leora dies from the plague on the island of St. Hubert. FTP, identify this novel about a research scientist by Sinclair Lewis.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: It was largely based on an oriental poetry anthology translated by Hans Bethge into German under the title The Chinese Flute; the first movement, is an allegro in A flat called the Heavens Are Ever Blue. The Lonely One in Autumn movement is made more plangent by separating each of the contraltos lines with wholly orchestral sections. The final movement, Der Abscheid or the Farewell, signifies the transcendence gained by accepting the cyclic renewal of the cosmos, and is based on another poem by Li-Po. For 10 points identify this symphony in six movements for solo voice and orchestra, a work of Gustav Mahler.
[EX A]:
Fine Arts