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 character in this work almost drowns in a shower when she sits on the drain, and another is left by his wife because he compares humans to computers. Other events include the Duke di Angelis quartet deciding to play a piece without instruments and the break-in of sailors who believe that the apartment is a brothel. Upstairs, another character dictates a theory to Aubade while cradling a dying bird in his hands. Describing a lease-breaking party thrown by Meatball Mulligan, for 10 points, name this work in which the thermometer always reads thirty-seven degrees and Callisto envisions a "heat-death for his culture," a short story by Thomas Pynchon.
[A]: Literature

[Q]: Koussevitsky commissioned this man to write his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. He wrote an opera that opens with the arrival of Laurie Moss' graduation gown. Three ascending notes in the brass open a work by this man that debuted at tax time. He quoted folk songs like "Camptown Races" in a work that incorporates spoken-word readings of texts like the Gettysburg Address. He used themes from the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" for ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. Another of his ballets contains a "Hoe Down. " He composed Fanfare for the Common Man and the ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid. For 10 points, name this composer of Appalachian Spring.
[A]: Fine Arts

[Q]: This author's works include one in which a rehearsal of Coriolanus is interrupted by people seeking the help of the protagonist, "the Chief", and one in which the literary Group 47 is transported to the end of the Thirty Years' War. In addition to The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising and The Meeting at Telgte, he also wrote a novel with a protagonist born right as the ship his mother was on sinks, Paul Pokriefke, and one in which the protagonist chooses to remain a child forever and allows himself to be convicted of a murder he did not commit. For 10 points, name this 1999 Nobel laureate, the German author of Crabwalk and The Tin Drum.
[A]:
Literature