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: As a child, this character reads his uncle the column That Body of Yours every Sunday. He sleeps with a cutlass and buys a puppy named Tarzan to protect himself while waiting for Mr. Maclean to finish building a shelter in the Green Vale, which is ultimately burnt down by sugarcane farmers. His father drowns after diving into a pool in a misguided attempt to save this character, who is actually hiding under a bed to avoid punishment for losing a calf. After his son Anand abandons him, he begins to work as a reporter for The Sentinel in Port of Spain. This character works as a sign painter, which brings him to Hanuman House, where he marries Shama by the Tulsi family. For 10 points, name this six-fingered character who struggles to get a house in a novel by V. S. Naipaul.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Her third husband was a farmer who lost his crops to a horde of fairy mice, but they stopped harassing him after he caught one and threatened to hang it. Before she married Manawydan, she had a child by her second husband who vanished from their home and ended up at the court of Teirnon. The daughter of Hefeydd the Old, this lady of the Singing Birds decided that she preferred a lord of Dyfed to her first husband, Gwawl. Considered a version of the horse goddess Epona, she was the mother of Pryderi by the man she loved, Pwyll. FTP, name this figure from Welsh myth who rings like a bell through the night in a song by Fleetwood Mac.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Many characters in this play disparage people named Patel, and its third scene begins with one character saying all train compartments smell vaguely of shit. The protagonist is introduced as D. Ray Morton after James Lingk arrives to speak to the character who he met at a Chinese restaurant, the setting for the three scenes of Act One. Moss threatens to turn Aaronow into the police if he refuses to rob Mitch and Murray, while another character asks to be put on the board after convincing Bruce and Harriet Nyborg to buy eight units of Mountain View. However, Williamson deduces that Shelley Levene stole the leads from the office, which is in the midst of a contest for a Cadillac. FTP, name this play about shady real estate salesman, by David Mamet.

SOLUTION:
Literature