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: This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One protagonist in this novel spends a summer with the wife of Colonel Forster, and that character's aunt and uncle have the surname Gardiner. One character in this novel initially rejects a marriage proposal by Mr. Collins, while her sister is romanced by Mr. Bingley, and another romance in this novel is initiated by the master of Pemberley, Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, name this novel about the sisters of the Bennet family, one of whom is Elizabeth, by Jane Austen.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Peter and Wendy Hadley send their parents to their deaths in a virtual reality machine in this man's short story ""The Veldt. "" This man wrote a novel in which the main character, Douglas Spaulding, nearly dies after learning about his own mortality. That novel by this man is Dandelion Wine. This man wrote a novel whose protagonist begins to memorize the Book of Ecclesiastes at the end. In that novel by this man, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books. For 10 points, name this author of Fahrenheit 451.

SOLUTION:
Literature