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: His death, called providential by Charles Sumner, fell on the same day his home state abolished slavery. After both Louis McLane and William Duane refused to pull the government's funds out of the Second Bank of the United States, the duty fell to this man in his role as Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury. He had earlier been Attorney General, and afterwards was appointed to his most famous position, from which he issued opinions in such cases as Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge and Ex parte Merryman. FTP, name this Supreme Court Chief Justice who most famously presided over Dred Scott.

SOLUTION: History

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: They can be synthesized by the McFadyen-Stevens reaction and the Nef reaction, and aromatic examples of them are created by the Gattermann-Koch reaction. Reacting an ester or a nitrile with DIBAL-H and hexane will produce them, and they can be detected by the formation of a silver mirror when exposed to Tollens reagent. They can also be prepared by oxidizing a primary alcohol with potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid, though using a secondary alcohol will give a ketone instead. Such properties are characteristic of, FTP, what class of organic compounds with a terminal carbonyl group, whose simplest member has formula CH2O

SOLUTION:
Science