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: George Meredith's bitter collection Modern Love is composed of works in a modified form of this style. Edmund Spenser's Amoretti is composed of eighty-nine of these, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a collection of them "from the Portuguese." Works in the English variety of this form can be divided into three quatrains and a couplet, and the Petrarchan type is divided into an octave and a sestet. For 10 points, name these fourteen-line poems.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: He adapted Joseph Blackburn's portrait d'apparat method for his works depicting a fat-looking woman with a blue book in Mrs. James Russell, Katherine Graves, an old elegant lady with a hint of a mustache in Mrs. Thomas Boylston, and a red-coated Samuel Adams. Influenced by John Smibert, his later historical works include The Death of the Earl of Chatham and The Death of Major Peirson. His The Boy with a Squirrel got him noticed, and he also painted a famous portrait of Paul Revere at his silver shop. FTP, name this American artist who depicted a dangerous incident occurring in Havana harbor in his Watson and the Shark.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In a poem by this man, Mary and Warren discuss an unreliable farm hand named Silas. Another poem by this man, published in North of Boston, describes apple trees that will never "eat the cones" of pine trees. In one poem, this man described the world ending in either fire or ice while another work states that "good fences make good neighbors." This poet of "Mending Wall" wrote a work in which the speaker chose a path that was "grassy and wanted wear," noting that he chose the one "less traveled by." For 10 points, name this American poet of "The Road Not Taken."

SOLUTION:
Literature