Rosario Castellanos - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet G: Bonus 8

This author’s posthumous play The Eternal Feminine imagines a conversation between notable women in Mexican history, including Sor Juana. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this pioneering feminist author of Ciudad Real and The Book of Lamentations, who described how sometimes your “measuring stick breaks” and “your compass goes missing” in her confessional poem “Valium 10.”

ANSWER: Rosario Castellanos

[10e] This other Mexican author wrote about the challenges faced by Sor Juana in The Traps of Faith. This author discussed Mexicans as the sons of “La Malinche” in his essay collection The Labyrinth of Solitude.

ANSWER: Octavio Paz

[10m] Sor Juana’s defense of women’s education, Reply to Sister Philotea, mentions the pioneering role of Teresa of Avila but fails to mention this author, who used famous women as the “building blocks” for her “city of ladies.”

ANSWER: Christine de Pizan [accept Christina da Pizzano]

<JF, World Literature> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
79	13.42	90%	44%	0%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama B	Louisville A	10	0	10	E
Arizona State	UC Irvine	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	20	EM
Birmingham	Edinburgh B	10	10	20	EM
Bowdoin B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Brown	10	0	10	E
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	E
Bristol	Warwick A	10	10	20	EM
Bruin	Tennessee A	10	0	10	E
Central Florida A	Central Florida C	10	0	10	E
Central Florida B	Florida B	0	0	0
Chicago B	Illinois C	10	0	10	E
Chicago C	Northwestern C	10	0	10	E
Chicago D	Illinois B	10	0	10	E
City St. George's	Southampton B	10	10	20	EM
Cornell B	Cornell A	10	0	10	E
Cornell C	Binghamton B	10	0	10	E
Edinburgh A	Cambridge B	10	10	20	EM
Florida C	Florida A	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech D	WashU A	10	0	10	E
Guelph	Toronto F	10	10	20	EM
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	10	20	EM
Imperial A	Manchester	10	10	20	EM
Imperial B	UCL	10	0	10	E
Imperial C	Oxford C	10	0	10	E
Indiana A	Chicago A	10	10	20	EM
Iowa State	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	E
Kentucky	Tennessee B	10	10	20	EM
MIT	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	E
McGill A	Ottawa	10	0	10	E
McGill B	Western A	10	10	20	EM
McMaster B	Toronto D	10	0	10	E
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	10	20	EM
Michigan C	Michigan A	10	0	10	E
Minnesota A	Carleton College	10	10	20	EM
Missouri A	Missouri B	10	10	20	EM
Montpellier	LSE	10	10	20	EM
Murray State A	Texas B	10	0	10	E
NC State B	South Carolina A	10	0	10	E
North Carolina A	James Madison B	10	0	10	E
North Carolina B	Wake Forest	0	0	0
North Carolina C	William and Mary	0	0	0
Northwestern B	Purdue B	10	0	10	E
Northwestern D	Indiana C	10	0	10	E
Notre Dame A	Chicago E	10	10	20	EM
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	10	10	20	EM
Ohio State B	Michigan State	10	10	20	EM
Ohio State C	CWRU A	10	0	10	E
Oxford A	Cambridge A	10	10	20	EM
Oxford B	Cardiff	10	10	20	EM
Penn State	Binghamton A	10	10	20	EM
Purdue A	Illinois A	10	0	10	E
RIT	Rochester	10	0	10	E
Sewanee	WashU B	0	0	0
Simon Fraser	Carleton University	10	0	10	E
South Carolina B	Liberty B	0	0	0
Southampton A	Durham	10	10	20	EM
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Berkeley D	10	10	20	EM
Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	E
Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	Brock	10	10	20	EM
Toronto E	Toronto G	10	0	10	E
UCLA A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	E
UCSD B	UCLA B	10	0	10	E
UCSD C	UCSD A	10	0	10	E
VCU	NC State A	0	0	0
Vanderbilt B	Mississipi State	10	0	10	E
Virginia	Liberty A	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech A	Duke	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech B	Liberty C	10	10	20	EM
Warwick B	Cambridge C	10	0	10	E
Washington A	Washington B	10	10	20	EM
Waterloo A	UBC B	10	0	10	E
Western B	Queen's	0	10	10	M
Western C	UBC A	10	0	10	E
Yale	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	✓	11	13.64	91%	46%	0%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	8.89	56%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	12	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%