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.

Q: One of this man's theories was supported by the discovery that Hittite contained forms in which distinct reflexes of the laryngeals are recorded, and he explained how the vowel alternations of a came about in his first work, Memoir on the Original System of Vowels in the Indo-European Languages. He is noted for his terms langue, or regularities and patterns in speech, and parole, or actual acts of speech. The work he is most famous for is often considered the foundation for structural linguistics, though Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye actually published it. FTP name this Swiss linguist whose lecture notes and other materials were posthumously turned into the seminal Course in General Linguistics.

A: Social Science
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Q: This man wrote a novel in which the title character pretends to be president of Black Rapids Coal Company on the Fidele on April Fools' Day. In addition to The Confidence Man, this man wrote about a coworker of Ginger Nut who responds "I would prefer not to" to any request. The [*] Piazza Tales includes this man's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener." In one novella by this man, the titular sailor punches Claggart before getting hung by Captain Vere, and in one novel by this man, the crew of the Pequod, including Starbuck, Ishmael, and Captain Ahab, chase after a giant white whale. For 10 points, name this author of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick.

A: Literature
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Q: This author wrote about geese podging home in a work where "A church clock subdivides the day" and "No bishops pursue their archdeacons with axes in a crumbling lair" in his poem "Et in Arcadia Ego. " In one of this man's works, a radio projects "Buy a bond. Blood saves Lives. Donate Now. Name this Station. " In that work's fourth section "The Dirge," the main characters take a cab to an apartment where they dance in a section called "A Masque. " One of his poems describes "barbed (*) wire enclosed an arbitrary slot / where bored officials lounge," and repeats "She looked over his shoulder. " A long of work of his focuses on Quant, Emble, Malin and Rosetta, and he wrote a poem that describes "the forsaken cry" and "dogs on with their doggy life. " For 10 points, name this author of "The Shield of Achilles" and The Age of Anxiety, who wrote "Musee des Beaux Arts. "

A:
Literature
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