La Malinche - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In a novel with this name, a character recalls her grandmother telling her that “if words are not used to water the memory of others… then they are useless” while learning to work with clay. For 10 points each:

[10h] Give this name that appears in the title of an essay which claims that a person with this name “embodies the open,” which is contrasted with the “closed, stoic, impassive” character of a country’s indigenous population.

ANSWER: La Malinche [accept Malinche: A Novel or “The Sons of La Malinche”]

[10e] Those who want this country to open itself are described as the title “Sons of La Malinche” in The Labyrinth of Solitude by an author from this country, Octavio Paz.

ANSWER: Mexico

[10m] A historical novel about La Malinche by this Mexican author gives her the name Malinalli. Each chapter begins with a recipe in this author’s novel about Tita de la Garza, Like Water for Chocolate.

ANSWER: Laura Esquivel [or Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	57%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	43%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%

Data


Stanford L	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford M	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin B	A Brandeis Supreme	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Northeastern A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Yale C	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Harvard A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Tennesse B	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech E	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennesse B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	0	0	10	10
Bard A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Penn State A	0	0	0	0
Penn B	Rutgers A	0	0	0	0
Penn State B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	UIUC D	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Miami	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	WashU C	0	10	0	10
UChicago C	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
UChicago A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	WashU D	0	10	0	10
UIUC A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	UIUC B	10	10	10	30
UIUC C	SIUE A	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A	Michigan State C	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	McGill E	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	NYU B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Texas A	10	10	10	30
Colorado College	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UBC A	0	10	0	10
SFU	UW B	0	10	0	10
UBC B	UW A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	LSE A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10