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: One character in this work misses her meeting with the DAR after stopping to check on her daughter's progress at typing school. Another character in this play earns the nickname "Shakespeare" for his avid love of literature. That character, Tom, goes to the movies every night, much to his mother's dismay. In this play, the central family awaits the arrival of Jim O'Connor, a potential suitor for a disabled girl who is concerned about the title objects. Name this play in which Amanda is worried about the well-being of her daughter Laura Wingfield, a work by Tennessee Williams

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: In one story, this god disguises himself as the farmhand Bolverk in a successful attempt to retrieve the Mead of Poetry. This god sits atop the ""high place"" of Hlidskjalf, and that which he cannot see is recalled to him by his two ever-circling ravens, Hugin and Munin. This god, who hung from the world tree on the spear Gungnir to earn mastery of the runes, will be swallowed whole by the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarok. For 10 points, name this one-eyed chief god of the Norse pantheon.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: This writer alleged that Ezra Pounds version of hell is not frightening because it is constructed solely for viewing by others and not for the damned, due to Pound having no concept of sin, in his essay After Strange Gods. A play by this man features Lucasta, the secret daughter of Sir Claude Mulhammer, and one of his works notes that at this stage of religious experience the proper prayer is/Teach us to sit still and is partially based on In Exile at Sarzana by Guido Cavalcanti. A lady dressed in white appears in a section by this poet which is inspired by the Valley of Dry Bones from Ezekiel, and this man also wrote the line "tenants of the house/thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. " For 10 points, name this writer of The Confidential Clerk and Ash Wednesday, who wrote "between the essence and the descent falls the shadow" in a poem that notes "this is the way the world ends/not with a bang but a whimper," "The Hollow Men. "

SOLUTION:
Literature