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: In her essay "A Bolter and the Invincible Summer" she admits to frequently skipping classes at convent school. Her more recent novels, The Pickup and The House Gun, are much less political than her first work, the story collection The Soft Voice of the Serpent. She furthered her political views in The Conservationist and July's People. However, it was The Burger's Daughter that was banned in her country for its stark portrayal of an entrenched discriminatory system. FTP, name this South African winner of the 1991 Nobel in Literature.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: A functor named for this mathematician can be interpreted as the first group homology group with integral coefficients. A cellular automaton discovered by Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld that displays self-organized criticality is a "sandpile model" named for him. This mathematician names a class of theorems showing that various summation methods are regular, i.e., that they give the correct result for convergent series. Grothendieck introduced categories named for this mathematician in his Tohoku paper; those categories are a general setting for homological algebra and allow morphisms and objects to be added. This non-Italian mathematician gave the first complete proof of the insolubility of the quintic by radicals. Groups that satisfy the commutative law and many other mathematical concepts are named for, FTP, what Norwegian mathematician who died at the age of 26, thus making everyone else look like a chump

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: In the Argonautica, Hera promises that this man and Medea will unite in the Elysian Fields, while some stories claim that after his death, his mother brought his remains to the island of Leuke. He was once wounded in a fight near the river Scamander against Asteropaeus. In one story, his whereabouts were revealed by Thestor, who sensed that he was on Scyros, disguised as a girl named Pyrrha in the court of Lycomedes. He fell in love with the Trojan princess Polyxena, while Helenus revealed the importance of this character's son with Deidamia, Neoptolemus. The death of his friend Patroclus inspires him to return to the Trojan War, where he eventually kills Hector in single combat. For 10 points, name this Greek hero, invincible except for his heel.

SOLUTION:
Social Science