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 example is below.
Q: In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
A: Literature
Rationale: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.
Q: This artist drew a large white cross stretching the entire length of the background of a lithograph titled Tightrope Walker, and late in life this artist painted a male and female in front of a brown background studded with jewel-like colors in The Travelling Circus. A copper etching by this artist shows a winged angel that was said to be the image of the "angel of history" by Walter Benjamin, and this artist also painted a group of (*) colored arches that appear to be marching. This artist of Angelus Novus and Viaducts Break Ranks wrote a Pedagogical Sketchbook, and his notebooks collect his lectures on art from the Bauhaus. Another work by this artist shows a pit under a wire and crank, on which four birds are perched. For 10 points, name this German-Swiss artist of Twittering Machine.
A:
Fine Arts