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.
Problem:Short stories by this man include one in which the protagonist foolishly tears down his entire house to fuel his oven for the winter, as well as one in which a king disguises himself as a peasant to visit an endlessly digging hermit in order to ascertain the answers to the three titular queries. Other short stories by this author see the narrator wonder if he will make it to the next post station regardless of the (*) snowstorm that obstructs him, as well as one in which the title character, who as a child was beaten by his mother for breaking a jug of milk falls in love with Ustinaya. Pahom dies in front of Bashkiris in another of his stories, which sees him buried in six feet of earth, thereby answering the title question. For 10 points, name this Russian author of ""Alyosha the Pot," and "How much Land does a Man need" who also wrote "The Kreutzer Sonata. "
Solution:
Literature