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 oxidation of one of these compounds with a Jones reagent yields carboxylic acid, and they are the product of the reaction of a ketone with a Grignard reagent. Esters are formed via a reaction of carboxylic acid and this compound in a process named for Fischer. Consisting of a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, they are given the formula R-OH. For 10 points, name this class of compounds exemplified by methanol and ethanol, the latter of which is found in hand sanitizer and beer.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: In a biography added to a 1640 edition of his works, Izaak Walton calls this writer another "Picus Mirandola. " His own prose includes a satirical atack on the Jesuits, Ignatius his Conclave, a defense of "self-homicide,"  Biathanatos, and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. He also penned such lines as "Go and Catch a Falling Star," and it is for poems such as "The Sun Rising," "The Canonization", and "The Flea"  for which he's best known. FTP identify this metaphysical poet of the Holy Sonnets and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. "

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Adherents of this religion believe in a seven tiered heaven where the top level is reserved for liberated souls. Practitioners of this religion believe that the earthly realm, or jambudnoa, also has seven parts, but that deliverance is only possible in three of these. Central to this religion are twenty-four omniscient beings called Tirthankaras, and the two main branches of this religion are Svetambara and Digambara, or white-clad and sky-clad. For 10 points, name this Indian religion whose followers practice a severe form of nonviolence known as Ahimsa.

SOLUTION:
Social Science