Teacher: 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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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.
Solution: Literature
Reason: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Now, solve this instance: In this novel, the central female character is forbidden from asking Oscar Wilde to sign her gazelle-skin
glove. The central male character in this novel confesses to having an affair with Barbara Lynch. Another
male character learns the violin from the German Lotario Thugut, which he attempts to use to win back his
former lover. At the beginning of this work, we learn how one of the main characters fell to his death
chasing his pet parrot. At the end of this work, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza make love aboard a
river boat and convince the captain the wave a yellow flag at port. For 10 points, name this Gabriel Garcia
Marquez novel that includes the character Juvenal Urbino, a doctor who hopes to eradicate the title disease.
Student:
Literature