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]: One novel set in this city features "apparat"s that share data about characters like Eunice Park and Lenny Abramov. That novel is Gary Shtyenngart's Super Sad True Love Story. In another novel set here a key found in an envelope prompts a meeting at which William Black is told by Oskar Schell about a voicemail consisting of the repeated phrase "Are you there" In another novel set here Keith Neudecker's estranged wife Lianne repeatedly sees the title street performer. For 10 points, name this setting of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Don DeLillo's Falling Man, both of which center on responses to the 9/11 attacks.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: In 1999, McIlroy created an adversary for this algorithm that guarantees that it will run in worst-case time. Its worst-case runtime can be avoided by switching to heapsort after a certain recursion depth, a construction known as introsort. Like mergesort, it is easily parallelizable, and its runtime can be decreased by first selecting the median of the unsorted input list. It was invented by C.A.R. Hoare, and its second phase is the partition function, which splits the original list into lists of elements that are greater or less than the chosen pivot value. For 10 points, identify this divide-and-conquer sorting algorithm which runs in big O of n log n time, named for its speed.
[A]: Science


[Q]: Critical works of this writer include The Time of the Assassins, a study of Rimbaud, and To Paint is to Love Again, which features many of his own watercolors. But it was for more earthy works like Black Spring and Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch for which he is better known. Willing to push the envelope in his depictions of sex, his affair with Anais Nin produced a celebrated set of letters, and his Rosy Crucifixion trilogy was censored for more than a decade in the U.S.  His most famous work was a scatological homage to Parisian bohemian life. FTP, name this author of the once controversial novel The Tropic of Cancer.
[A]:
Literature