Question
In this short story, Sister Sara explains to the narrator how women invented solar power and defeated an advancing army by scorching them with it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1905 short story in which an unnamed narrator has a vision of a peaceful futuristic society called Ladyland, which is run by women and confines men to the house.
ANSWER: “Sultana’s Dream”
[10m] Begum Rokeya’s story “Sultana’s Dream” notably came out a decade before this novel, in which Van Jennings discovers an all-female society where women reproduce through parthenogenesis.
ANSWER: Herland (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
[10e] “Sultana’s Dream” and Herland are both early works of feminist fiction in this genre. This term describes an ideal society that titles a book by Thomas More.
ANSWER: utopia [accept utopian]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 16 | 17.50 | 100% | 69% | 6% |
Data
| McGill A | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Minnesota A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Florida A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| MIT A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |