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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.
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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.
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Literature

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This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.
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Fine Arts

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The magnetic moment of a charged particle is equal to this quantity times the g-factor times charge divided by two times the mass. Delta baryons have a value of 1.5 for this quantity, and, like other particles with half-integer values of this quantity, obey Fermi-Dirac statistics, whereas those with integer values obey (*) Bose-Einstein statistics. The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that pairs of electrons in the same orbital sub-shell must have opposite values of this quantity. For ten points, identify this quantum number, the angular momentum of a sub-atomic particle.
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Science