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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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This philosopher argued for a hybrid approach of historical materialism and psychoanalysis that he termed the "progressive-regressive method." He used the example of a man that fails to meet his friend after walking into a cafe to illustrate the second title concept of one of his works. This man densely analyzed the life of Gustave Flaubert in his book length study The Family Idiot. His short treatise (*) Search for a Method recapitulates themes of another of his books, which calls humanity a "fused group." This author of Critique of Dialectical Reason argued that the object of consciousness exists as "in-itself," but experience exists "for itself" in a book that argues the authentic life is one way to escape the grip of "bad faith." For 10 points, name this existentialist author of Being and Nothingness.
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Social Science


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One antagonist in this work leaves behind the head of Aeschere after killing him. Unferth argues that the success of this work's title character was due to luck. A villager steals a golden cup from a cave towards the end of this work. The title character  beheads the corpse of a figure who had been attacking Herot and decides to help King Hrothgar at its beginning. At the end of this work, Wiglaf helps the protagonist battle a dragon which ultimately kills the hero. For 10 points, name this epic poem about a hero who killed the monster Grendel.
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Literature


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Girolamo Bedoli slavishly imitated this artist's style and completed work in Santa Maria della Steccata. Giorgio Vasari praised the "three most fanciful lights" in this man's depiction of the Circumcision. Vasari also claimed this man's studio was invaded by German soldiers who were so amazed by his work they left him alone to finish an altarpiece commissioned for San Salvatore del Lauro. That work shows a man in contrapposto with a leopard skin hanging on his leg and was this man's (*) Vision of St. Jerome. He gave one of his paintings to Pope Clement VII, who in turn gave it to Pietro Aretino; that work depicts a ring on an enlongated pinky finger and was painted by borrowing a barber's glass that distorted the artist's image. For 10 points, name this Mannerist painter of the Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
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Fine Arts