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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.
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During this dynasty, the minister Qin Gui committed an infamous act of treachery against the general Yue Fei, and the author of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Sima Guang, opposed the New Laws of Wang Anshi. Zhao Kuangyin formed it, and gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and moveable type were invented during this era, before the death of emperor Qinzong led to the decline of its Northern period, but its southern incarnation survived until the Mongol conquest. For 10 points, name this dynasty is credited with unifying China after the Ten Kingdoms and Five Dynasties periods.
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History


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This work contains the lines, "The swallow tittering from the straw-built bed, the cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, no more shall rouse them from their lowly bed" before claiming that "Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear". Another section of this work discusses how "Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll" and "beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, each in his narrow cell for ever laid". This work begins with the lines, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea". For 10 pointsname this poem by Thomas Gray.
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Fine Arts


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This author chronicled a family's fall over 60 years from the perspective of Nell in the collection Moral Disorder. In another work by this author, psychologist Simon Jordan inspects the title maid, who is accused of murdering her former employer Thomas Kinnear. That novel is Alias Grace. Another of her novels follows Snowman as he protects a community of genetically engineered humanoids called Crakers. Along with Oryx and Crake, she wrote a novel set in the Republic of Gilead that follows the title character Offred. For 10 points, name this author of The Handmaid's Tale.
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Literature