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.

A comic argument in this play turns on whether an available sofa was yellow or green. An attempted seduction goes awry when a woman reveals she is wearing clothes in mourning, but her seducer suggests she just take off her dress. A procurer leaves because she is scandalized by the presence of the mother of one of her former prostitutes. In addition to Madame Pace, other characters include one found dead in the fountain, the Girl, and the Boy, whose death from a mysterious gunshot causes the remaining figures to argue with the director over whether he's really dead or just pretending. FTP, name this play about the unnamed title figures who interrupt a rehearsal, a work by Luigi Pirandello.
Literature

One of his attendants was represented by an oxen, and another was the god of water, and represented by a snake. Vohu Manah and Haurvatat, together with Asha, Kshathra, Armaiti, and Ameretat, were called the Amesha Spentas, who opposed the Daevas. His father, Zurvan, was a deity of space, time, and fate, and his son, Atar, battled a dragon, Azhi Dahaka, that cut Zima in half with a saw. Called Ormazdh in the religion's contemporary form, it was Vohu Manah who appeared to a certain prophet near the Daitya River, invited him to come to heaven, and inspired him to compose the Gathas, part of the Avesta. FTP, name this god, the counterpart of Ahriman, the embodiment of good, and the supreme deity in Zoroastrianism.
Social Science

In one novel by this author, the protagonist starts taking shisha to escape the realities of his life. In the fifth section of another work by this author, the title of which is alternatively translated as "The Children of the Alley," the protagonist, Arafa, symbolizes modern science, and is claimed by the followers of the prophets who came before him as one of their own. This man's later works included Arabian Days and Nights and The Journey of Ibn Fatouma, which drew on traditional Arabic narratives for subtexts, and Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, which discussed the ideological battle between old and new religious truths. For 10 points, name this Egyptian author of The Cairo Trilogy and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Social Science