Part 1. 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.
Part 2. Example
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.
Answer: Literature
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.
Part 3. Exercise
A character in one of his stories compares South Africa to a John Ford western. and one of his novels ends with a Hindu ceremony for the death of his sister in a section entitled The Ceremony of Farewell. The career of the exiled Ralph Singh is followed in his novel The Mimic Men, and Richard's retirement from Excal is the focus of his Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion. Ferdinand represents the New Man of Africa in his work A Bend in the River, and fires and storms destroy two attempts by the six-fingered title character to own a home in his novel A House for Mr. Biswas. The 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, FTP name this Trinidadian author.
Answer:
Literature