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.

[Q]: This author wrote about Octave de Malivert's love with the title character in Armance, and also published a story collection called the Italian Chronicles. This man also wrote about a resident of Lake Como who attempts to join Napoleon's army before that man, Fabrizio del Dongo, ultimately retires to the titular residence. In addition to The (*) Charterhouse of Parma, this man wrote a novel whose protagonist is sentenced to death after shooting at Madame de Renal. For 10 points, name this French author who created Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black.
[A]: Literature


[Q]: This ruler attacked the custom of smoking in his essay ""A Counterblast to Tobacco,"" and he wrote about witchcraft in his book on demonology. Anthony Weldon dubbed this king ""the wisest fool in all of Christendom. "" This ruler angered Parliament by playing favorites, such as by making George Villiers the Duke of Buckingham. During this man's reign, Guy Fawkes attempted to destroy parliament in the Gunpowder plot. For 10 points, name this son of Mary, Queen of Scots, the successor to Elizabeth I and first Stuart monarch.
[A]: History


[Q]: Systems with a discrete upper energy limit can possess negative absolute values of this quantity. This quantity is defined as one over the energy partial derivative of the entropy; its reciprocal is referred to as beta. Mean kinetic energy is defined as one half times the Boltzmann constant times this quantity. The (*) third law of thermodynamics predicts an unattainable lower limit for this quantity, which is a measure of the average energy in a substance due to heat, called absolute zero, and this quantity is equal for two bodies in thermodynamic equilibrium. For 10 points, name this quantity, measured in scales like Kelvin.
[A]:
Science