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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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In one of this author's short stories, the title character is killed after taking a boy hostage, after which his body is dumped in an unused mine and stinks up the village. In addition to The Catch, this author has recently completed the trilogy The Flaming Green Tree, a work he claims will be his last. Other works by him include a four-volume collection that contains a story about the boy Eeyore, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and a novel about children who are taken to a remote village after a plague breaks out. The birth of Bird's child with a brain hernia parallels this man's own experiences with his retarded son and is central to his A Personal Matter. FTP, identify this author of Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids, who also wrote about the brothers Mitsu and Takashi in The Silent Cry.
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Literature


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Works during this man's Serialist period include the choral work The Dove Descending Breaks the Air and Threni along with a piece commemorating the poet Dylan Thomas. Early in his career he wrote songs such as "The Fairy's Kiss" and The Faun and the Shepherdess along with a popular concerto for orchestra known as Fireworks. His operatic works include the one-act work Rossignol and an opera about Nick Shadow with a libretto by W.H. Auden, The Rake's Progress, but he is better known for his Psalm Symphony and ballets like Petruschka. FTP, name this Russian composer of The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.
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Fine Arts


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The composer of this work used material from his abandoned opera The Voyevada for its Grand adage and Valse des fiancees, and he regretted writing it after listening to Leo Delibes's ballet, Sylvia. The title location of this work was formed by the tears of the female lead's parents after she was abducted, and is visited by the protagonist on a hunting trip with his best friend, Benno. That character, Prince (*) Siegfried, is later tricked by the bird-sorcerer Von Rothbart into mistakenly swearing his love for his daughter Odile. For ten points, name this ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in which Odette is turned into the title white bird.
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Fine Arts