TASK 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.
PROBLEM: An author from this country wrote about The Maniac, who impersonates a judge in Accidental Death    of an Anarchist. Another author from this country wrote of a boy who steals a Nazi's gun in The Path  to the Nest of Spiders. Another writer from this country wrote about interruptions to a production of   a play by characters such as the Father and the Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author. A  series of one hundred tales is told in another work from this country called The Decameron. Identify  this country, the home of Dario Fo, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello, and Boccaccio [boh-KAHT-choh].

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: This Vermont native's political positions included head of House and then Senate committees on territories, in which capacity he gave a speech telling opponents of expansion that "you cannot fetter the limbs of this young giant. " His support for expansion led him to favor repeal of the Missouri Compromise and he answered the Dred Scott decision by supporting popular sovereignty in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine. For 10 points, name this man who ran for president against John Bell, John C. Breckenridge and Abraham Lincoln, against the last of whom he had held a famous series of debates in Illinois.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In one work, this philosopher tells a story about one man leaving his lover in order to preserve the idealized recollections of the past. In another work, this man argues that to become a true self, humans must be conscious of the self and also of the alignment with a higher power. This author of Repetition and [*] The Sickness Unto Death wrote a work in which he claimed the final level of individual existence was the "knight of faith." This writer of Fear and Trembling also wrote about the first two levels of existence using the pseudonyms of A and Judge Vilhelm. For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher who wrote Either/Or.

SOLUTION:
Social Science

