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.
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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
Reason: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Now, solve this instance: Descartes' First Meditation claims that the obsession over this material is related to a "cerebellaso clouded with black bile. " This substance was at the center of a mania first described in a case study of a man from Saint Germaine who was compelled to defecate standing up, and constantly wore a small pillow on his rear end, who was only cured when his doctor gave him a "severe thrashing. " This material was the namesake of that manic obsession, whose most famous sufferer's condition was documented by the future Pope Pius II and included a fear of being touched and the wearing of protective clothing. Many sufferers of the obsession over this material thought that they were a "urinal. " For 10 points, name this material at the center of a sixteenth-century "delusion" that the French King Charles VI suffered from, in which people thought that they were susceptible to shattering because they were made of it.
Student:
Social Science