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: Sections of this work discuss early Roman law and the Germanic wadium, while it begins with a quote from the Havamal, a portion of the Edda. This work extends the author's first work, a collaboration in which he analyzed analogous ideas in Hinduism and Judaism. Marilyn Strathern critiqued this book from a gender perspective, while Sahlins' article on the "The Spirit of [It]", claimed that its author may have misunderstood an idea called the hau, in which the souls of the people involved in the title ritual become intermingled. The author views the title concept as multivalentthat is, a situation where a single action stands for all of society, called a total prestation. Drawing from Malinowski's study of the kula ring and the institution of the potlatch, for 10 points, identify this sociological work about the titular exchange by Marcel Mauss.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: Some of this man's later works were created for television, including a score for the 1942 adaptation of his opera The Pilgrim's Progress as well as an adaptation of his seventh symphony for Scott of the Antarctic. His first choral symphony is a setting of parts of five Walt Whitman poems, including "A Song For All Seas, All Ships. " This mans operas also include one featuring a prize fight between the title character and John the butcher, as well as a direct adaptation of a J.M. Synge play. Hugh the Drover and Riders to the Sea were composed by, FTP, which British composer, who also created The Lark Ascending, the London Symphony, and Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: In Gian-Carlo Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks!, a Globolink destroys one of these objects that Emily had been using to ward them off. The title character of Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf steals one of these objects from Daniello. An Englishman hires Schaunard to kill a parrot using one of these devices in La Boheme. The soldier in Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat trades one of these devices to the devil for a book that will predict the economy. One theme later taken up by this instrument was first hummed by Anna Bussotti, whose blood was mixed into its varnish in a film scored by John Corigliano whose solos were played by Joshua Bell. For 10 points, name this instrument which represents death in a scordatura solo that begins Danse Macabre.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts