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.

[Q]: This man wrote a novel in which the title character pretends to be president of Black Rapids Coal Company on the Fidele on April Fools' Day. In addition to The Confidence Man, this man wrote about a coworker of Ginger Nut who responds "I would prefer not to" to any request. The [*] Piazza Tales includes this man's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." In one novella by this man, the titular sailor punches Claggart before getting hung by Captain Vere, and in one novel by this man, the crew of the Pequod, including Starbuck, Ishmael, and Captain Ahab, chase after a giant white whale. For 10 points, name this author of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: One author from this country wrote about a nave village boy recruited to fight in a civil war in his "novel in rotten English," Sozaboy. Another author from this country was awarded the 1991 Booker Prize for his best known work, The Famished Road. Another novel by an author from this nation is No Longer at Ease, which recounts the firing of a government worker, Obi Okonkwo, whose similarly named grandfather was the protagonist of the novel Things Fall Apart. For 10 points, name this nation of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: The Hilbert Basis Theorem guarantees that if one of these is Noetherian, then the polynomials over it are also Noetherian. While the existence of a multiplicative unit in one of these isnt guaranteed by the axioms, most authors assume its presence. These can form quotients with special subsets known as ideals, and commutative ones with no zero divisors are known as integral domains. Formally an abelian group over addition and a monoid over multiplication, this describes, for ten points, what algebraic structure exemplified by the integers
[A]:
Science