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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.

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.
Solution: Literature
Why? The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

New input: A story about this war featured a "messenger from God" praying for enemy soldiers to be torn "to bloody sheds" and is titled "The War Prayer." Before war was declared, Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor declared his travels had shown him "the worst misgovernment" and "barbarity" he had seen. A cartoon mocking it featured two men pushing blocks labeled "War" while wearing the smocks of the Yellow Kid. Prior to this war, (*) newspapers labeled Valeriano Weyler the "Butcher," and the Teller Amendment promised the U.S. would not annex land. Called "a splendid little war" by John Hay, its decisive battle was won by George Dewey at Manila Bay. For 10 points, name this 1898 war sparked by the explosion of the Maine, in which Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders won the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Solution:
History