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: The service that concludes this celebration is known as Neilah [NAY-ee-luh] and most wear white during it. Ritual slaughter of a rooster often occurs during this holiday. Originally instituted due to Leviticus 23:26, it is usually begun by the Kol Nidre. Beginning on the tenth day of Tishri, five days before Sukkot, it also includes the Amidah prayer, which expresses communal responsibility for sins committed previously. Not allowing work or consumption of food for 25 hours, for ten points, name this day of atonement, perhaps the most important Jewish holiday.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In 1997 Edwin Hall wrote a book about this work which discussed the inclusion of St. Margaret emerging from the belly of a dragon, which can be seen carved above the back of a chair, to argue that Erwin Panofsky's influential interpretations are too simplistic. Commissioned by its subject, a counselor to the Duke of Burgundy who made his money as a silk merchant, the year and the artist's signature can be seen above the mirror whose reflection depicts the artist himself. That artist would go on to paint other famous portraits like The Madonna with the Chancellor Rolin. Filled with details like a lit candle, a little dog, and a pair of discarded clogs, FTP, identify this work that depicts a man dressed in dark heavy wool and a big hat holding the hand of his betrothed, a painting by Jan van Eyck.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In one work, this author noted that "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" after telling its addressee that "your slightest look will easily unclose me", while he began another with the lines "since feeling is first/who pays any attention/to the syntax of things". One work by this author notes that "it's always ourselves we find in the sea" after describing the four title figures going "down to the beach (to play one day)", while the title group of another of his poems is said to be "making poems in the (*) lap of death". In addition to "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" and "Humanity I love you", he penned a work whose title figure "sang his didn't and danced his did" and another which asks "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". For 10 points, identify this author of "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and "Buffalo Bill's defunct", who also wrote "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and the novel Enormous Room and who was noted for his idiosyncratic punctuation and capitalization.

SOLUTION:
Literature