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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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When these devices exploit their voltage-dependent variable capacitance they are known as varactors. Barring the creation of local hot spots, a non-destructive avalanche current is produced by electron-hole pair propagation when the electric field within the (*) depletion region of these devices reaches a critical value. Majority carriers exist in an energy state greater than the Fermi energy in the Schottky barrier variety and those that operate in reverse breakdown are named after Zener. For 10 pointsname these devices that allow current to pass in only one direction.
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Science

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depicted a basket of fruit level with a small raised chest and an urn in a painting that portrays a hunched writing man next to Mary and Jesus. He painted an amphora resting atop a column in the background of a scene in which an angel hustles the holy family down a road. This artist of The Holy Family on the Steps and a Flight into Egypt painted two men holding a massive bunch of grapes in a series which also includes depictions of the Flood and Ruth and Boaz. This artist of The Four Seasons painted two men carrying the body of the title Athenian statesman in one painting, and in another depicted an angel in a chariot holding a hoop above four women dancing with their backs turned to each other. He painted two versions of a work in which four shepherds inspect a stone tomb. For 10 points, name this foremost French classicist who painted Dance to the Music of Time and Et In Arcadia Ego.
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Fine Arts

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This author tells of a politician J.J.J. who drives the title car in his story The Mercedes Funeral, while a barmaid with the Christian name Beatrice uses a skin-lightening cream called Ambi and steals from a lorry driver in Minutes of Glory both stories are collected in Secret Lives. A play by this writer ends with Thoni committing suicide after being rejected by her would-be love Remi, an educated man who decides to return to his village from the city. That work is The Black Hermit, while another work revolves around preparations for celebration of Uhuru and the betrayal of Kihika after he shoots the District Officer Tom Robson. The author of the influential piece Decolonizing the Mind, his recent satire Wizard of the Crow comes after a hiatus when he wrote mainly in Gikuyu. FTP, name this author of A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood.
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Literature