Puerto Rico - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about the appearance of guavas in literature, for 10 points each.

[10e] The first sentence of Esmeralda Santiago’s memoir of growing up on this island mentions “guavas at the Shop & Save.” Spanish-speaking authors from this American island territory include Giannina Braschi and José Rivera.

ANSWER: Puerto Rico [or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico] (Santiago’s memoir is When I Was Puerto Rican.)

[10h] In this novel, Yolanda pretends not to speak Spanish after getting a flat tire in a guava field. This novel uses reverse chronology to detail the lives of four sisters in America after they flee the Trujillo (“troo-HEE-yo”) regime.

ANSWER: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (by Julia Alvarez)

[10m] This author wrote about Sampath, who lives in a guava tree after getting fired from the post office, in her novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. This author also wrote The Inheritance of Loss.

ANSWER: Kiran Desai [reject “Anita Desai”]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


UCF B	Florida B	10	0	0	10
UCF C	Florida A	0	0	0	0
William & Mary	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
UNC B	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Bristol	Oxford C	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	NYU C	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UC Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
UCLA	Claremont B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Haverford A	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	George Washington A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Penn B	10	0	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Duke	UNC C	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Missoui S&T	Illinois A	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Winona State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Harvard B	10	0	10	20
Brown A	UMass Boston	10	0	0	10
UBC	Alberta	10	10	10	30
UW A	UW B	10	0	0	10
TAMU	ASU	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Bruin A	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	0	0	10
LSE	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Cambridge E	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Durham	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Sheffield	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
John Jay College	Haverford B	10	0	10	20
Yale A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Cornell D	RIT A	10	0	0	10