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.

One character in this work pretends to sing a fashionable song from "The Vain Precaution" in a scene that ends in the quintet "Buona Sera". This opera's tenor pretends to be a drunken soldier when he meets the servant girl Berta, while in the aria "Calumny is a little breeze", Doctor Bartolo receives advice from Don Basilio. Its popular overture was intended for its composer's Aureliano in Palmira, while its first act sees Rosina describe her love for Lindoro in "Una voce poco fa". This opera's title character first appears singing the aria "Largo al Factotum" and aids Count Almaviva in wooing Rosina. For 10 points, name this opera about Figaro, composed by Gioacchino Rossini.
Fine Arts

One poem by this author claims that "there's nothing sentimental about the technique of writing," which can be mastered by "any young man with a mind bursting to get out." This author argued that "The United States without self- seeking has given more of material help to Europe and to the world than have all other nations of the world put together in the entire history of mankind" in the chapter "Jacataqua," from a book which contains short biographies of people like Eric the Red, Walter Raleigh, and Daniel Boone. Another book by him begins with the section "The Delineaments of the Giants," which mentions "blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees" to reinforce that there are "no ideas but in things," and describes a place that "lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls, its spent waters forming the outline of his back." For 10 points, name this author of In the American Grain and an epic about his New Jersey hometown, Paterson.
Literature

A derivative of this compound prefixed by pseudo- is an important modifier of the T-arm of tRNA, while its fluorine derivative is used to inhibit the enzyme thy-mi-dyl-ate syn-thase, effects of which are essential to its use in chemotherapy. Its N-gly-coy-lase is an important excision enzyme, participation of which explains the absence of Okazaki fragments on the leading strand; it is also essential to protection from damage resulting from deamination of another compound to this nucleotide. First identified in herring sperm, FTP, name this pyrimidine in which the lack of a methyl group is the only difference between it and the nucleotide it replaces, thymine, in RNA.
Science