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: The Providers order that Al-lith marry Ben Ata in one of this author's works, which is the second part of a series that ends with Krolgul and Klorathy returning to Shammat. In addition to The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, both part of this author's Canopus in Argos series, this author wrote about the birth of Ben to Harriet and David Lovatt in The Fifth Child and the cat-dog Hugo that accompanies Emily Cartwright in Memoirs of a Survivor. More well known works by this author include one in which Moses kills Mary, the wife of Dick Turner, and one in which stories from Anna Wulf's life are interspersed with excerpts from the novel Free Women. For 10 pointsname this author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: This Vermont native's political positions included head of House and then Senate committees on territories, in which capacity he gave a speech telling opponents of expansion that "you cannot fetter the limbs of this young giant. " His support for expansion led him to favor repeal of the Missouri Compromise and he answered the Dred Scott decision by supporting popular sovereignty in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine. For 10 points, name this man who ran for president against John Bell, John C. Breckenridge and Abraham Lincoln, against the last of whom he had held a famous series of debates in Illinois.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: According to one story, this figure founded a city when his efforts in digging up a mushroom revealed a spring. That city was ruled by Electryon and Sthenelus, members of a namesake dynasty he founded. When this ruler was unable to assume the throne of Argos, he traded realms with Megapenthes. This man was sent on a quest by a king of Seriphus named (*) Polydectes during which he stole the tooth and eye of the Graeae. He rescued the daughter of Cassiopea and Cepheus from a sea monster before taking that girl, Andromeda, as his wife. His mother Danae was locked in a tower by King Acrisius to avoid a prophecy, but he was conceived by Zeus in the form a stream of gold. For 10 points, name this hero who used winged sandals and the helmet of invisibility to slay Medusa.

SOLUTION:
Social Science