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.

[EX Q]: A response to one of this man's works contains the lines, ""When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead! "" That work is John Greenleaf Whittier's ""Ichabod. "" He is the namesake of Jim Smiley's pet jumping frog in a Mark Twain story. In another story, he talks about how man was ""tricked and trapped and bamboozled"" while defending Jabez Stone in front of a jury of the damned. For 10 points, name this orator who bests the Devil in a Stephen Vincent Benet story.
[EX A]: Fine Arts

[EX Q]: An approximation of it named for Russell uses the TDS value to determine one of its parameters via the Langelier approximation, while one constant that appears in it has units of moles per kilogram to the one half power, according the Bates-Guggenheim convention. Along with Guggenheim, Scatchard and Bronsted improved upon this model by developing the SIT theory, and that model has a better fit than a modification of it named for Davies. This relationship assumes the existence of only long-range interactions, and it was extended to account for Brownian motion by Lars Onsager. It assumes that the solvent is structure-less and that the solution is dilute, and the theory behind it implies that the electrostatic potential falls off exponentially when r is greater than the atomic radius due to screening by counter ions. For 10 points, identify this equation which is used to calculate the activity coefficients, and is named for a German and a Dutch scientist. 
[EX A]: Science

[EX Q]: One thinker during this dynasty studied "meta philosophy" in his Asfar, and it saw Iskander Beg Monshi write a biography of one of its most famous rulers, who astonished Pietro della Valle with his knowledge of Christianity. That man also mocked the Kurds after his victory at the Battle of DimDim. Two rulers of this dynasty worked with the incorruptible vizier Saru Taqi, and another ruler of this dynasty was nicknamed "Very well! " and had to face rebellions by Mir Veis and the Ghilzai Afghans. Another ruler signed the Peace of Amasya, which lasted until the time of Mohammaed Kondabanda. This dynasty was succeeded by Nader Shah and the Afsharids, and was aided by the brothers Anthony and Robert Shirley. Various rulers of this dynasty were troubled by the rise of Qizilbashi factions, whose intertribal issues came to light after this dynasty's loss at the Battle of Chaldiran. For 10 points, name this Twelver Shia dynasty of Persia, noted for rulers such as Ismail, Tahmasp, and Abbas.
[EX A]:
History