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
This character reads Of Human Bondage, A Farewell to Arms, and Out of Africa, before meeting a cab driver named Horowitz, who is unable to answer his question about where ducks go when their pond freezes over. This character also meets two nuns, with whom he discusses Romeo and Juliet before giving them some money. This character has violent encounters with Maurice the pimp, who beats him up over a difference of five dollars, and his roommate Stradlater, whom this character attacks after Stradlater's date with Jane Gallagher. One of his prized possessions is a baseball glove with poetry written on it in green ink, which belonged to his now-dead brother Allie. For 10 pointsname this brother of D. B. and Phoebe, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
Answer:
Fine Arts