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: The artists friend Meyer de Haan appears with two semi-nude women surrounded by flowers in his Barbarian Tales. A naked black woman lies on her stomach on a green bed in one painting by this painter. He drew a tree branch to set off the main action taking place on a vermillion background in another work. This painter of Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel also painted a religious figure surrounded by Breton women. He depicted an old woman with a white bird at her feet representing the final stage of life in another painting. For 10 points, name this French painter who painted The Yellow Christ and Where Do We Come From What Are We Where Are We Going while living out his life on Tahiti.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: Hans-Georg Gadamer argued that the ideal described in this work is heuristic in nature in an essay about this work's author "and the poets. " Books six and seven of this work assert that knowledge is ultimately for the Good, which shines on intelligible essences like the sun. It asserts that love is "a tyrant" over man, and compares imaginative, real, intelligent, and abstract levels of thought to a line divided into four segments. In its first book, Thrasymachus describes justice as "the advantage of the stronger," while its seventh book likens people unaware of Forms to humans viewing shadows on the wall of a cave. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue that describes an ideal society.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: The theme of passion in this novel is addressed by the character Professor Josu, who asserts that a lover should write a ballad, not a sonnet, for the title character. Set in the village of Ilhus, a young cacao exporter arrives to relieve the town of control by various "colonels," including Manuel of the Jaguars, Jesuno Mendona, and Ramiro Bastos. The title character, the wife of Vesuvius Bar owner Nacib Saad, is a beautiful mulatto with equal skill in the kitchen and bedroom. Relating the reform efforts of Mundinho Falco, FTP, identify this best known work of Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado.

SOLUTION:
Literature