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: Sections of this work discuss early Roman law and the Germanic wadium, while it begins with a quote from the Havamal, a portion of the Edda. This work extends the author's first work, a collaboration in which he analyzed analogous ideas in Hinduism and Judaism. Marilyn Strathern critiqued this book from a gender perspective, while Sahlins' article on the "The Spirit of [It]", claimed that its author may have misunderstood an idea called the hau, in which the souls of the people involved in the title ritual become intermingled. The author views the title concept as multivalentthat is, a situation where a single action stands for all of society, called a total prestation. Drawing from Malinowski's study of the kula ring and the institution of the potlatch, for 10 points, identify this sociological work about the titular exchange by Marcel Mauss.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: The Soave equation adds an acentric factor to this statement, and the virial equation measures deviations from this law using a compressibility factor. This law derived by Benoit Clapeyron can account for density in its "dirty mop" form, and when A and B terms are added to account for the volume and interactions between particles, it is called van der Waals equation. Containing a namesake constant that is Boltzmann's constant times Avogadro's number is, for 10 points, what law usually stated as PV equals nRT

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: One of this man's short stories sees the lawyer Dennis Flange drink wine with Rocco instead of going to work, while another sees Grover Snodd and others plan elaborate pranks like disrupting a PTA meeting with smoke bombs. Those stories, "Low-lands" and "The Secret Integration", are found in a collection alongside a work which sees Meatball Mulligan throw a party, entitled "Entropy". Another work contains sections titled "Beyond the Zero" and "Un Perm' au Casion Hermann Goering" and details the adventures of a character who, due to experiments performed on him by Laszlo Jamf, has sexual encounters that foreshadow rocket strikes. For 10 points, name this author of Gravity's Rainbow

SOLUTION:
Literature