Teacher: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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: One of this author's novels begins after a man who was seduced by a servant girl leaves his umbrella below-decks on a ship. In another of this author's works, the protagonist meets the painter Titorelli and the lawyer Herr Huld. Karl Rossman befriends a stoker in this author's Amerika, and Josef K. dies "like a dog" in another work. This author of The (*) Trial is most famous for a novella whose protagonist has apples thrown at him by his father and dreams of sending his sister Grete to play violin at the conservatory. For ten points, name this author who wrote of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a bug in The Metamorphosis.
Student:
Literature