Part 1. 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.
Part 2. Example
In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Answer: Literature
Explanation: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.
Part 3. Exercise
was originally used to describe a wave function in momentum space for a wave with definite momentum. The integral from -1 to 1 of this function of 1 over x is zero. An infinite series of evenly spaced ones is called a (*) comb, and the Fourier transform of that construct is another comb. The convolution of a function with this one simply yields the original function. It was first rigorously defined mathematically by Laurent Schwartz. The integral of a function "f" multiplied by this function centered at point "a" is f(a) ("f of a"), and it is the derivative of a step function named after Heaviside. For 10 points, name this "improper" function with zero width, infinite height, and area one, often used to describe a sharp impulse.
Answer:
Science