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.
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Question: This man reformed the fyrd militia system so that it fought in shifts, allowing for the creation of a standing army without disrupting agriculture. In addition to establishing the burhs system of forts, this man built a secret military base on the swamp island of Athelney. This mans advisors included Bishop Asser, who wrote an early biography of him. This author of the so-called doom book won control of all territory west of Watling Street when he won the Battle of Edington against Guthrum the Old. Apart from translating many religious works into English, he is best known for ending the Danegeld. For ten points, name this King of Wessex, the only English monarch with the epithet the Great.

Answer: History


Question: When these devices exploit their voltage-dependent variable capacitance they are known as varactors. Barring the creation of local hot spots, a non-destructive avalanche current is produced by electron-hole pair propagation when the electric field within the (*) depletion region of these devices reaches a critical value. Majority carriers exist in an energy state greater than the Fermi energy in the Schottky barrier variety and those that operate in reverse breakdown are named after Zener. For 10 pointsname these devices that allow current to pass in only one direction.

Answer: Science


Question: party game in this work sees people counting fast in a circle, with mistakes being punished with a box on the ear. One character says he will not use pistols after an incident when a bullet went through a maid's hand. In one scene, the protagonist argues with Albert about the morality of a girl drowning herself. Near the end of this work, the protagonist recites the songs of Ossian to his beloved, who declares the meeting their "last time. " The protagonist ultimately realizes he can never be with Charlotte, prompting him to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this epistolary work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sensitive problems of the youthful titular character.

Answer:
Literature