Helen Oyeyemi  - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This author’s chapter “Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold” shows letters between the title character and an aspiring female writer who considers Foxe’s Book of Martyrs to be the best book of the 1500s. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this contemporary British author of Mr. Fox, in which an imaginary muse teaches a writer not to kill off female characters. She also wrote The Icarus Girl and White Is for Witching.

ANSWER: Helen Oyeyemi (“oh-yay-YEM-ee”)

[10e] In this poem, the lady warrior Britomart sees the phrase “be bold, be bold” above a door in the house of the sorcerer Busirane. Gloriana is this epic’s title character.

ANSWER: The Faerie Queene (by Edmund Spenser)

[10h] In this American author’s story “The Summer People,” Ophelia sees the phrase “be bold, be bold, but not too bold” in a house occupied by fairies. This magical realist wrote Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners.

ANSWER: Kelly Link

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	14.58	92%	46%	8%

Data


Berkeley A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Waterloo	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Claremont Colleges	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Purdue	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	WUSTL A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech	Brown	0	10	0	10
Northwestern	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Illinois	Maryland	10	10	0	20
Truman State	McGill	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	NYU	10	10	10	30
Harvard	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
Penn	Florida	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Rutgers	10	10	0	20
South Carolina	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	Stanford	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Texas	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Duke	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	WUSTL B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Michigan	0	10	0	10