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: This philosopher argued for a hybrid approach of historical materialism and psychoanalysis that he termed the "progressive-regressive method." He used the example of a man that fails to meet his friend after walking into a cafe to illustrate the second title concept of one of his works. This man densely analyzed the life of Gustave Flaubert in his book length study The Family Idiot. His short treatise (*) Search for a Method recapitulates themes of another of his books, which calls humanity a "fused group." This author of Critique of Dialectical Reason argued that the object of consciousness exists as "in-itself," but experience exists "for itself" in a book that argues the authentic life is one way to escape the grip of "bad faith." For 10 points, name this existentialist author of Being and Nothingness.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In this painting, the colonial print and flowers on the woman's dress symbolize domestic care and the traditional role of women in society. The two figures in this work were modeled after the artist's dentist and sister. The man has a cross look on his face and symbolizes hard labor by holding a pitchfork. For 10 points, name this work by Grant Wood, which symbolized America in the 1930s.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth is performed in scene ten of this play, and scene seven features a discussion of how the plans of great men are ruined by the littleness of their underlings. The story of Peter the Piper is recounted by the prostitute Yvette Pottier, who later pawns a flask to the Colonel. One of the main characters is executed for raiding a village, one is shot down when she tries to warn a town about an approaching army by beating on a drum, and another is captured when he tries to return the lieutenants cashbox. Eilif, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese are the children of the title character who makes her living as a canteen woman during the Thirty Years War. FTP, name this play about Anna Fierling by Bertolt Brecht.

SOLUTION:
Literature