TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: The protagonist of this novel throws a snowball at Gerstacker after asking him whether he can drive the protagonist around, to which Gerstacker replies, "What do you mean" A conversation with Pepi, a substitute barmaid, is found in the remaining eighty pages of this work, which were found among its author's papers. The protagonist works as a school janitor after the mayor disregards his letter from Klamm and learning that his services were erroneously requested by the title structure. Ending with Frieda leaving with Jeremiah instead of the protagonist, who still has not heard from Count Westwest about working as a land surveyor, FTP, name this novel about K.s frustrating inability to penetrate the title building, by Franz Kafka.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Franz Boas used the example of the Kwakiutl to argue that this mans theory of matrilineal to patrilineal movement was flawed. In a work that included the sections Growth of Intelligence and Growth of Idea and Government, he added four more levels to an idea of Montesquieus, and he also wrote The American Beaver and His Works. His joint work with Ely S. Parker among the Tonawanda Seneca led to The League of the Iroquois, and in his most famous work, he posited savagery, barbarism, and civilization as three stages of societal evolution. FTP, name this anthropologist and author of Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity and Ancient Society.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: One author from this country is known for his autobiographical work The Days. In addition to Taha Hussein, this country has produced an author who wrote about the assassination of this country's president in The Day the Leader Was Killed. That author also wrote novels such as The Thief and the Dogs and (*) Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this home of Naguib Mahfouz whose literature also includes The Book of the Dead and was often written on papyrus.

SOLUTION:
Literature