Question
An essay argues that if this sentence is true and its author “knows how to express it,” then “she will light a torch in that vast chamber nobody has yet been.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this sentence from Mary Carmichael’s novel Life’s Adventure. Upon reading this sentence, the narrator of an essay wonders how different Antony and Cleopatra would have been had a similar statement been true.
ANSWER: “Chloe liked Olivia.”
[10e] The hypothetical novel Life’s Adventure appears in this Virginia Woolf essay, which states that a woman must have money and the title space if she is to write fiction.
ANSWER: A Room of One’s Own
[10h] Woolf names this novel as coming close to that rare work in which two women are friends. Augustus Warwick tries to divorce this 1885 novel’s title character, who was based on Caroline Norton.
ANSWER: Diana of the Crossways (by George Meredith)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 16.67 | 100% | 48% | 19% |
Data
| Waterloo | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kentucky | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |