Rosario Castellanos - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

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]

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

Data


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