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: When he died of a ruptured appendix in 1925, he was only 43, but he had already achieved great acclaim. In fact, he was memorialized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art less than a year after his death. A devotee of Robert Henri, he was noted for his dramatic interpretations of common life, especially in New York City, where he helped organize the Armory Show of 1913. FTP name the painter of Forty-Two Kids, Matinicus, and such prize-fighting scenes as Stag at Sharkey's.		

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: composer of this opera was convinced to pursue it by his friend Sybil Seligman, who commissioned a translation of its text. At one point, a character reads the Fifty-first Psalm of David, though the original text had a book entitled "Old Joe Miller's Jokes. " Another character expresses frustration in the first act by declaring "Che terra maledetta," after which the romantic conflict is established by the aria "Chi c'e per farmi I ricci" In the second act, another character's knowledge of Nina Micheltorena is asked into by Ashby, and later that character sings the aria "Ch'ella mi creda libero. " Based on a play by David Belasco, it also features Wowkle and Billy, who are urged to marry in a church, and Jim Larkens who simply longs to go home. Ramirez is the secret identity of Dick Johnson, who is saved by his beloved Minnie. FTP, name this opera set in the American west, by Puccini.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: One novel by this author deals with the ill-stricken Milly Theale and the impact she has on the people around her. In addition to the novels, The Wings of the Dove, The Bostonians and The Ambassadors, this author wrote of a work in which Miles and Flora encounter the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. In this author's most famous work, Isabel Archer rejects the hand of Caspar Goodwin and accepts Gilbert Osmond's proposal of marriage. For 10 points, name this American writer of works such as Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, and Portrait of a Lady.

SOLUTION:
Literature