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.

[EX Q]: An author from this country wrote about The Maniac, who impersonates a judge in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Another author from this country wrote of a boy who steals a Nazi's gun in The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Another writer from this country wrote about interruptions to a production of a play by characters such as the Father and the Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author. A series of one hundred tales is told in another work from this country called The Decameron. Identify this country, the home of Dario Fo, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello, and Boccaccio [boh-KAHT-choh].
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: This author's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas led to his imprisonment on sodomy laws, during which time he penned De Profundis. After his release from prison, he wrote a poem containing the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves", The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This author of An Ideal Husband and Lady Windemere's Fan wrote one play in which Gwendolyn Fairfax loves the title character in part due to his name and in his only novel, this author describes the title character's destruction of a painting done by Basil Hallward. For 10 points, identify this Irish writer of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: This ruler patronized such poets as Romanus the Melodist. This ruler took advantage of the death of Amalasuntha to invade Sicily. This man's reign saw a loss to Gelimer at Ad Decimum, but at Tricamarum generals serving this ruler defeated the Vandals. Another conflict occurring during this ruler's reign saw a major defeat at Callinicum, which was followed by a truce known as the Eternal Peace. He put down unrest instigated by members of the Blue and Green factions, and one of his most important achievements, which was overseen by Tribonian, solidified the power of the emperor and outlawed certain religious practices. For 10 points, name this Byzantine emperor, husband of Theodora and author of a revolutionary legal code.
[EX A]:
History