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: One character in this work almost drowns in a shower when she sits on the drain, and another is left by his wife because he compares humans to computers. Other events include the Duke di Angelis quartet deciding to play a piece without instruments and the break-in of sailors who believe that the apartment is a brothel. Upstairs, another character dictates a theory to Aubade while cradling a dying bird in his hands. Describing a lease-breaking party thrown by Meatball Mulligan, for 10 points, name this work in which the thermometer always reads thirty-seven degrees and Callisto envisions a "heat-death for his culture," a short story by Thomas Pynchon.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: First proposed by Lewis, it is related logarithmically to a gas's standard Gibbs free energy divided by the temperature and gas constant. At equilibrium, this quantity must be equal in both gas and liquid phases. Taking the derivative of the natural log of this function is equates it to the derivative of a reaction's chemical potential. Equal to the gas' pressure when the gas is ideal, FTP, identify this thermodynamic quantity which replaces partial pressure when working with real gases and describes the tendency of a substance to escape from its current phase, symbolized by f.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: This man gave a lecture about psychology claiming that "Introspection forms no essential part of its methods. " His 1928 work Psychological Care of the Infant and Child is no longer considered a standard text, and ironically he himself later claimed he didn't know enough to write it. With his assistant Rosalie Raynor, this man conducted an experiment in which he struck a metal pipe with a hammer to scare an infant into associating that fear with a pet rat. resulting in the child fearing all white fluffy things. FTP name this author of the book named for his psychological beliefs, Behaviorism.

SOLUTION:
Literature