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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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One of his books analyzed such documents as a picture of a woman lying on the floor with bent legs in front of a bemused man in a three-piece suit, which this author argued communicated a message even though the text was too blurry to read. In addition to writing Gender Advertisements, he described the procedures for boarding a bus or navigating a crowded elevator in his (*) Interaction Ritual. His major work draws on a theory first developed by George Herbert Mead, symbolic interactionism, to explain the "dramaturgical approach" to ordinary behavior. For 10 points, name this Canadian sociologist who wrote The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
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Social Science

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Martin and Primavesi recently discovered a fragment of this thinkers treatise On Nature. This man wrote the poem Katharmoi, but Aristotle excluded this mans works from the Poetics because while it was written in hexameter, it does not characterize its subject matter as a representation of life. OBrien, Wright, and Aristotle all claimed that this man adhered to a cyclical view of the universe, and this thinker also argued that human limbs once lived on their own. He wrote an autobiography known as the Purifications, in which he said that he was a vegetarian because animals contain transmigrated human souls. This man believed that all matter was once a sphere, which dissolved into the present world. He argued that neikos and philia drove the world, with strife separating substances and love bringing them together. This Sicilian is said to have died by throwing himself into Mt. Etna. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that the world was divided into four elements: water, earth, wind, and fire.
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Social Science

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Many concert pianists use this composer's "The Punch" as an encore piece, which comes from his set of piano works in which each piece represents a different doll. He wrote a symphonic trilogy about World War One consisting of symphonies titled "The War," "The Victory and "The Peace." This composer of A Prole de Bebe was championed by Arthur Rubinstein whose personality inspired his Rudepoema. He included pieces called "Woodpecker" and "Settimino" in a set of 14 pieces inspired by a type of street music called Choros, while another work includes movements dedicated to "teddy boy" culture and "The Little Train of Caipira." This composer used eight solo cellos in the fifth member of a set of pieces whose movements have both a traditional title and a title taken from Portuguese folk music. For 10 points, name this composer who wrote Bachianas Brasileiras.
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Fine Arts