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.
One example is below.
Q: In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
A: Literature
Rationale: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.
Q: One of this man's title characters learns that Shakespeare is forced to walk behind a "common tailor from Tennessee" named Billings, while in a novel of his, a man invents the Cursing Phonograph and another character pretends to be the outlaw One-Armed Pete. That novel was intended as a sequel, but the protagonist's name had to be changed to "Mulberry" after a lawsuit from a man who shared a name with the original character. That character first appeared in a novel where the fall of Senator Dilworthy and the murder trial of Laura dash Washington Hawkins's scheme to profit from establishing a black college. This author of "Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven" and "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" wrote the quite-posthumouly published play "Is He Dead" as well as a satire on the Congo called "King Leopold's Soliloquy," though he may be better known for such novels as one subtitled "A Tale of Today" and co-written with Charles Dudley Warner, "The Gilded Age. " For 10 points, name this creator of Injun Joe, Hank "The Boss" Morgan, an amphibian from Calaveras County, and Tom Sawyer.
A:
Literature