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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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This man used his experiences in Spain to write Tales of the Alhambra and wrote under the pen name "Jonathan Oldstyle." This man's History of New York was written under the pen name of Diedich Knickerbocker. In another of his works, the main character romances Katrina Van Tassel. That character of this author is driven from the title town by (*) Brom Bones, who dresses as the Headless Horseman to terrify Ichabod Crane. For 10 points, name this American author of "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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Literature

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One member of this phylum, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is often used to study developmental processes, and another, Pisaster ochraceus, is an example of a keystone species. Most members of this phylum have pedicellariae that possess three jaws, and some have a chewing apparatus known as Aristotle's lantern. Members of class Asteroidea of this phylum have an ambulacral groove, and the madreporite is the entrance to their water vascular system that includes tube feet. FTP name this phylum whose "spiny skinned" members have radial symmetry and include sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea stars.
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Social Science

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A song cycle from this composer features movements representing an encounter with a giant beetle and one in which a child fails off of his stick horse on the way to Yukki. Along with The Nursery, other song cycles by this man include one with a section "Enclosed Inside Four Walls", Sunless and another cycle with a Trepak representing a peasant in a blizzard, Songs and Dances of Death. The second act of one of this man's operas people panicking over a pig's snout appearing in a window and that opera is known for its Gopak wedding dance. In addition to The Fair at (*) Sorochyntski, another work by this man depicts the clumsy running around of a gnome and a 2/4 time signature pesante section involving oxen pulling a large cart. Such sections are separated by an alternative 5/4 and 6/4 time promenade and other portions of that work include a conversation between poor and rich Jews, a panicking chase by a "Hut on Hen's Legs and the Great Gate of Kiev. FTP, identify this Russian composer who depicts Chernobog in Night on Bald Mountain and is best know for his Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Fine Arts