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.

In one novel by this author, the title character dances with Barbra Flick while choosing not to pursue the tanner Emil Rothfuss's wife. This author of Knulp wrote about Joseph Knecht's pursuit of the role of Magister Ludi in the title intellectual game, and described a journey undertaken with Govinda in search for the Buddha in another novel. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about the saxophonist Pablo bringing Hermine to the Magic Theatre, causing Harry Haller to stab her. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
Literature

One ruler of this dynasty avoided a prophecy of his death by abdicating in favor of the puppet Yusufi for four days during his persecution of Nuqtavis. This dynasty was defeated at Gulnabad by the Ghilzai leader Mahmud. Its founder was victorious at Merv over the Uzbeks and had earlier overthrown the White Sheep dynasty. This dynasty was eventually supplanted by Karim Khan and the Zand dynasty, and its final rulers were puppets of Nadir Shah. Tahmasp I was a ruler of this dynasty, which was defeated at Chaldiran by Selim the Grim. Under Abbas I, this dynasty established a capital at Isfahan, and it was founded with the help of the Qizilbash by Ismail I. For 10 points, name this Shi'ite dynasty that ruled Persia from 1501 to 1736.
History

This artist was influenced by his early consumption of James Gibbs' Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture, and his first creation drew from the Semple House. Frederick D. Nichols asserts that his reading of Roland Frart de Chambrays Parallle de larchitecture antique et la moderne made him obsessed with octagons, (+) exemplified in the garden and general layout of the Poplar Forest house he designed. Charles-Louis Clerisseau introduced this man to the French "cubist" style of architecture and sparked his enthusiasm for the Maison Carree, later adapted into a building he designed for his home polity's capitol (*) building. One of his final creations, known as The Rotunda, was essentially a half-scale Pantheon and was flanked by five pavilions on either side, an idea drawn partially from William Thornton. Probably his best known work contained Mulberry Row on the same property and drew heavily from his reading of Palladio. FTP, identify this architect best known designing the University of Virginia and his home, Monticello.
Fine Arts