Detailed Instructions: 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.
See one example below:
Problem: 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
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Problem: Geoffrey Wain tries to blame a military defeat in this war on his nephew Neil Macrae in Hugh MacLennans novel Barometer Rising. Stepan Astakhovs life is saved during this war by his rival, the Cossack Gregor Melekhov, in Mikhail Sholokhovs novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The aftermath of this conflict is depicted in The Road Back, a sequel to a novel which also features the character Tjaden. In that novel, the schoolmaster (*) Kantorek encourages his students to fight in this war, where they meet the scheming corporal Himmelstoss. Kemmerich and Kat also die in that novel, which ends with the death of Paul Baumer. For 10 points, name this conflict, the setting of Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front.
Solution:
Literature