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: As a child, this character reads his uncle the column That Body of Yours every Sunday. He sleeps with a cutlass and buys a puppy named Tarzan to protect himself while waiting for Mr. Maclean to finish building a shelter in the Green Vale, which is ultimately burnt down by sugarcane farmers. His father drowns after diving into a pool in a misguided attempt to save this character, who is actually hiding under a bed to avoid punishment for losing a calf. After his son Anand abandons him, he begins to work as a reporter for The Sentinel in Port of Spain. This character works as a sign painter, which brings him to Hanuman House, where he marries Shama by the Tulsi family. For 10 points, name this six-fingered character who struggles to get a house in a novel by V. S. Naipaul.

A: Literature
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Q: Martin and Primavesi recently discovered a fragment of this thinkers treatise On Nature. This man wrote the poem Katharmoi, but Aristotle excluded this mans works from the Poetics because while it was written in hexameter, it does not characterize its subject matter as a representation of life. OBrien, Wright, and Aristotle all claimed that this man adhered to a cyclical view of the universe, and this thinker also argued that human limbs once lived on their own. He wrote an autobiography known as the Purifications, in which he said that he was a vegetarian because animals contain transmigrated human souls. This man believed that all matter was once a sphere, which dissolved into the present world. He argued that neikos and philia drove the world, with strife separating substances and love bringing them together. This Sicilian is said to have died by throwing himself into Mt. Etna. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that the world was divided into four elements: water, earth, wind, and fire.

A: Social Science
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Q: This man warned against the creation of an episcopate in America in his Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law. In response to a request for advice from North Carolina, he wrote a pamphlet praising mixed constitutions, called Thoughts on Government. He received a letter asking him to "willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend." This Unitarian seconded a motion by (*) Richard Henry Lee at the Second Continental Congress to force the first vote on declaring independence. This man was urged to "Remember the ladies" in a letter from his wife. For 10 points, name this Massachusetts patriot, whose cousin Samuel led the Sons of Liberty, a president who died within hours of his rival Thomas Jefferson.

A:
History
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