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.

In one novel by this author, the title character dances with Barbra Flick while choosing not to pursue the tanner Emil Rothfuss's wife. This author of Knulp wrote about Joseph Knecht's pursuit of the role of Magister Ludi in the title intellectual game, and described a journey undertaken with Govinda in search for the Buddha in another novel. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about the saxophonist Pablo bringing Hermine to the Magic Theatre, causing Harry Haller to stab her. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
Literature

An author from this country wrote about The Maniac, who impersonates a judge in Accidental Death    of an Anarchist. Another author from this country wrote of a boy who steals a Nazi's gun in The Path  to the Nest of Spiders. Another writer from this country wrote about interruptions to a production of   a play by characters such as the Father and the Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author. A  series of one hundred tales is told in another work from this country called The Decameron. Identify  this country, the home of Dario Fo, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello, and Boccaccio [boh-KAHT-choh].
Literature

This author created the vainglorious Aristabalus Bragg in a work about the Effingham family's return to New York, Home as Found. He described the romance of Lucy Hardinge in Afloat and Ashore, a story that would be continued in Miles Wallingford. He wrote of monkeys traveling in Europe and set another work in 16th Century Bavaria. In addition to The Monikins and The Heidenmauer, he wrote about politics in A Letter to his Countrymen and The American Democrat, while his trilogy about the Anti-Rent War included the novel The Chainbearer. Characters created by this man include Harvey Birch, in a story of Revolutionary War intrigue, as well as Judith Hutter, who appears in a series of novels that also features Cora Munro, the evil Magua, and the noble Uncas. For 10 points, identify this author of The Spy who chronicled the adventures of Natty Bumppo in the Leather-Stocking Tales.

History