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: This man wrote about a creature that "launch'd forth filament, filament, filament" in a poem about a "noiseless patient spider." He wrote "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" in his "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." He published a "deathbed edition" of his continually revised masterpiece, which includes a poem beginning "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." For 10 points, name this American poet who included "Song of Myself" in his Leaves of Grass.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: One antagonist in this work leaves behind the head of Aeschere after killing him. Unferth argues that the success of this work's title character was due to luck. A villager steals a golden cup from a cave towards the end of this work. The title character  beheads the corpse of a figure who had been attacking Herot and decides to help King Hrothgar at its beginning. At the end of this work, Wiglaf helps the protagonist battle a dragon which ultimately kills the hero. For 10 points, name this epic poem about a hero who killed the monster Grendel.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: Kucklick and Robinson both worked to extend this thinkers general science of order in collecting his Logical Essays. This person aimed to solve the problem of evil using so-called process theism by rejecting the idea of God as other in The Problem of Job. One central work of this writer argues that a commitment to self-consciously asserted will is the root of all morality, an assertion that forms the basis for his anti-Nietzschian theory of community. In addition to writing The Philosophy of Loyalty, this man argued that the title issue is In what sense, if any, can the modern man consistently be a Christian in another work, a condensation his 1913 Hibbert lectures; those are respectively The World and the Individual and The Problem of Christianity. For 10 points, name this foremost American exponent of absolute idealism.

SOLUTION:
Social Science