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: This novel was published in the U.S. under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. The main character is contrasted with criminals when his picture in the police station is put up next to that of a bank robber. The main character avoids the Red Shirts by traveling by mule into the country's interior, where he takes Marca for his wife, as did his counterpart Father Jos. The main character is then duped by a mestizo and then imprisoned for practicing the rituals of the Church despite being outlawed in Mexico. FTP, identify this novel centering on Father Montez, one of the most famous works of Graham Greene.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In this novel, Lebezyatnikov exposes another character after he slips a hundred-ruble note in a girl's pocket. This novel's protagonist refuses copying work given to him by his university friend Razumikhin, and he also receives a letter from his mother Pulkheria telling of his sister's engagement to Luzhin. Porfiry Petrovich mistakenly (*) investigates a pair of painters in this novel, not long after Alyona Ivanova and Lizaveta are found murdered. For ten points, identify this novel in which the creepy Svidrigailov and prostitute Sonya make the acquaintance of Raskolnikov, who murdered a pawnbroker with an axe, a work of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: One of this composer's masses features a Credo in which the first tenor sings four steps up and down the C Major scale corresponding with the Latin words ascendit and descendit, and the tenor and bass omit the standard phrase Benedicimus te in his generically titled Missa Brevis. This composer's motet Cantantibus Organis was used as the basis for a triple-choir mass composed as a collaboration between this man and other members of the Congregation of the Lord's Music. This teacher of Annibale Stabile and Giovanni Dragoni also wrote a Second Book of Spiritual Madrigals and a mass featuring an unusual two-part Agnus Dei written for six voices a capella and specifically designed for the words to be intelligible. FTP, name this Italian composer who may have influenced the Council of Trent's decision not to ban polyphonic music with his Pope Marcellus Mass.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts