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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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An author from this country wrote about The Maniac, who impersonates a judge in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Another author from this country wrote of a boy who steals a Nazi's gun in The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Another writer from this country wrote about interruptions to a production of a play by characters such as the Father and the Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author. A series of one hundred tales is told in another work from this country called The Decameron. Identify this country, the home of Dario Fo, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello, and Boccaccio [boh-KAHT-choh].
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Literature

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While a man in this play reads the newspaper, he says that Mary Splatt has just had a baby girl, prompting his wife to declare she'd much rather have a boy. One woman in this play seems confused that her husband goes out at the same time every day, but it's only dark out some days, until he explains that the sun comes up later in winter. This play opens with one character repeatedly asking ($) "Is that you" before giving a man some cornflakes. During a game of blind man's bluff during this play, one man gets his glasses broken, prompting him to get angry and try to (*) rape Lulu. That man denies that the title event is for him despite receiving a drum at the end of Act I, and he is eventually carted away by Goldberg and McCann. For ten points, identify this play set at Meg and Petey's boarding house, the title event of which celebrates Stanley Webber, a work by Harold Pinter.
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Literature

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In 1964, Wladyslaw Moes claimed to be the inspiration for this work of literature, which was also partly inspired by an outbreak in Palermo. Its main character, the author of the book A Study in Abjection, nearly leaves for home, but an accident with his luggage gives him an excuse to continue his vacation where, obsessed with a boy he thinks is named Tadzio, he dies of cholera. FTP, name this 1912 novella by Thomas Mann.
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Literature