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: Martin and Primavesi recently discovered a fragment of this thinkers treatise On Nature. This man wrote the poem Katharmoi, but Aristotle excluded this mans works from the Poetics because while it was written in hexameter, it does not characterize its subject matter as a representation of life. OBrien, Wright, and Aristotle all claimed that this man adhered to a cyclical view of the universe, and this thinker also argued that human limbs once lived on their own. He wrote an autobiography known as the Purifications, in which he said that he was a vegetarian because animals contain transmigrated human souls. This man believed that all matter was once a sphere, which dissolved into the present world. He argued that neikos and philia drove the world, with strife separating substances and love bringing them together. This Sicilian is said to have died by throwing himself into Mt. Etna. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that the world was divided into four elements: water, earth, wind, and fire.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Published under the pseudonym Johaness de Silentio, this work is believed by analysts to have two distinct themes. First is the "teleological suspension of the ethical," an example of which is God's order that Abraham kill Isaac. From there the author uses the Abraham/Isaac story to come to terms with the end of his love affair with Regine Olsen. The overall story, then, concerns a contrast between the "tragic hero" and the "knight of faith. "  FTP, name this 1843 philosophical work by Soren Kierkegaard. 				

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This man described the Buddhist mandala as the "path to the center" in his Memories, Dreams, Reflections, whose appendices include Seven Sermons to the Dead. He described the union of opposite sexes with the term "syzygy," and proposed non-causal connections called synchronicities. The Myers-Briggs test builds on his concepts of "introvert" and "extrovert. " He also theorized the male and female animus and anima. For 10 points, name this Swiss analytic psychologist, who claimed that universal images, or archetypes, form the collective unconscious.

SOLUTION:
Social Science