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.

[EX Q]: In one work, this thinker consults with a monk to better understand the concept of proximate power. This thinker divided hypotheses into three categories depending on what absurdities would be implied by accepting the hypothesis as true or false. This man participated in the Formulary Controversy with a series of letters in which he attacked Antonio Escobar's use of casuistry and lambasted the moral lapses of the Jesuits. After a carriage accident and a subsequent religious vision, he published his Memorial, which led to him taking up the cause of the Jansenists. He is the namesake of an idea that suggests that the belief in God represents the possibility of infinite gain while only imposing a finite loss. For 10 points, name this author of the Provincial Letters and Pensees, a French philosopher who is the namesake of a "wager" and a mathematical triangle.
[EX A]: Social Science

[EX Q]: In this work, Mrs. Goddard receives a goose from another character who lives at Abbey-Mill-Farm with her brother Robert. One character in this work must wait to marry until his aunt, Miss Churchill, has died, and Mr. Elton unexpectedly finds a wife in Bath. The title character of this work is rude to Miss Bates, the aunt of Jane Fairfax, and also unsuccessfully attempts to play matchmaker for Harriet Smith. The title character of this novel eventually realizes she loves Mr. Knightley. For 10 points, name this novel about a certain Miss Woodhouse by Jane Austen.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: The main character discards the remains of a ruined coin bank shaped like a grinning man that he destroys while staying in the apartment of a woman he barely knows named Mary. In one scene a man faints while visiting the Golden Day Tavern after a group of veterans start a brawl. Jim Trueblood's story of how he impregnated his own daughter horrifies the rich trustee Mr. Norton during a campus tour lead by the protagonist, who is ultimately expelled from college by Dr. Bledsoe. The narrator meets Tod Clifton when he joins The Brotherhood before Ras the Exhorter incites a violent race riot in Harlem at the end of this novel. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by a nameless black man, written by Ralph Ellison.
[EX A]:
Literature