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: The service that concludes this celebration is known as Neilah [NAY-ee-luh] and most wear white during it. Ritual slaughter of a rooster often occurs during this holiday. Originally instituted due to Leviticus 23:26, it is usually begun by the Kol Nidre. Beginning on the tenth day of Tishri, five days before Sukkot, it also includes the Amidah prayer, which expresses communal responsibility for sins committed previously. Not allowing work or consumption of food for 25 hours, for ten points, name this day of atonement, perhaps the most important Jewish holiday.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: It exists because of electron degeneracy pressure; as electrons are compressed closer together, more exist per unit volume and must take on higher energy levels as mandated by the Pauli-exclusion principle. A relativistic state equation can be used to calculate it as the radius of a white dwarf decreases with an increase in its mass. Developed shortly before its namesakes theory on black holes, for ten points, name this value of about 1.4 solar masses, the maximum mass of a star which can be supported against gravitational collapse.

SOLUTION: Science

PROBLEM: In this novel, Lebezyatnikov exposes another character after he slips a hundred-ruble note in a girl's pocket. This novel's protagonist refuses copying work given to him by his university friend Razumikhin, and he also receives a letter from his mother Pulkheria telling of his sister's engagement to Luzhin. Porfiry Petrovich mistakenly (*) investigates a pair of painters in this novel, not long after Alyona Ivanova and Lizaveta are found murdered. For ten points, identify this novel in which the creepy Svidrigailov and prostitute Sonya make the acquaintance of Raskolnikov, who murdered a pawnbroker with an axe, a work of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

SOLUTION:
Literature