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
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Q: James Wood argued in his essay about this man's "Complacent God" that his writing was more style than content. He has written about a New Jersey teenager who attempted to bomb the Lincoln Tunnel, and published a poetry collection called "Endpoint" and essays called "Due Considerations. " In one story, he writes that Stokesie has "two babies chalked up on his fuselage already," and the main character lusts after Queenie, an unknown girl in a bathing suit. Most of his novels are set in fictional Olinger, Pennsylvania and Eastwick, Rhode Island, and they including the Bech books, Buchanan stories, and "The Scarlet Letter" trilogy, while he is best known for a trilogy involving one character, whose first book ends with the pregnancy of his mistress after his legitimate daughter is accidentally drowned. For 10 points, name this American author of Terrorist and "A&P" best known for his character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

A: Social Science
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Q: This man's artistic influences included his stepfather Peter Pelham and the late Rocoist Joseph Blackburn, who created the "portrait d'apparat" technique which this man used to depict Epes Sargent and Baron Graham. This painter of The Red Cross Knight depicted a man suffering a stroke in Parliament in The Death of Chatham and an animal on a gold chain near a glass of water in another work. For 10 points, name this painter of Boy With a Squirrel who showed a distressed man being pulled back into a boat in Havana harbor in Watson and the Shark.

A:
Fine Arts
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