Question
While based in New Delhi as Ambassador to India, this poet wrote The Monkey Grammarian and inspired several members of the Hungry Generation. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Mexican poet and Nobel laureate, whose works include the long poem Sunstone and the book-length essay The Labyrinth of Solitude.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz [or Octavio Paz Lozano]
[10e] The structure of Sunstone is based on this civilization’s calendar. The Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is a compilation of Nahuatl-language poetry written by this Mexican civilization.
ANSWER: Aztecs [prompt on Mexica]
[10h] Paz also wrote The Traps of Faith, a biography of this 17th-century poet. The mystical poem First Dream is by this colonial-era Mexican nun.
ANSWER: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [or Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana; prompt on de la Cruz or de Santillana]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 33% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| NYU B | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Lehigh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | University of Delaware A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Delaware B | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swarthmore A | Princeton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |