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: In one story about this figure, he forgives a man who murdered a woman because she wanted to have sex; he also converts Charisius and Mygdonia before being put to death by Misdaeus. According to tradition, he received the girdle of the Virgin Mary after she was assumed bodily into Heaven, and he is credited with authorship of the "Hymn of the Pearl. " His namesake Gospel describes Jesus killing a playmate for having bumped into Jesus's shoulder, while in John 14:5 he asks Jesus, "How can we know the way" at the Last Supper. Also called Didymus, meaning "Twin," and famous for spreading Christianity to India, this is, FTP, what apostle who asked to touch Jesus's wounds after the resurrection, leading to the epithet "Doubting"

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Taft's strong dissent in Adkins v. Children's Hospital suggested that this case should be overruled. The "era" that this case ushered in ended with a case that saw the notorious "switch in time to save nine," West Coast Hotel v. Parrish. Much of Rufus Peckham's opinion dealt with whether the law in question constituted a proper use of the police power. John Marshall Harlan's dissent in this case decried the Court's attempt to become a legislature, while Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissent stated that the fourteenth amendment does not enact Spencer's Social Statics. FTP, name this 1905 case which overturned a law concerning bakers' working hours.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: In this work, a scribe records that a dead man sells another dead man a house, and this work notes that certain individuals "never tasted the cup of tranquility," advising against the literal interpretation of verses such as "And verily Our host shall conquer. " Hooper Dunbar produced a "companion to the study" of this text, and near the end of its first section, the book addresses the learned of Bayan to not forget its teachings. This book addresses such confusing terms as "Seal of the Prophets" and in one verse explains that backbiting should be treated as an error and that by cleansing and purifying his heart, the knowledge of the Ancient of Days is available to the true seeker. This text was written in two days and two nights in 1861 in Baghdad, where the Bah'u'llh was in exile. For 10 points, name this primary Bah' holy text.

SOLUTION:
Literature