Seeing as I AM an English Professor...

[intertext]

I would have been mortified by any other result:

Your Score: English Professor

You scored 92 % reading depth, 95 % reading breadth, 95 % eclecticism - #CATEGORY#

You are a hardcore reader of texts popular and canonical. You may be an English teacher.

If you have not applied to graduate school, you should be conscripted.

Either that, or you cheated. But being willing to look things up and reason out the answers to some frankly vicious trick questions written by an admitted sadist is worth almost as much as already knowing everything.

Here, have your own whip.

Link: The Are you literary? Test written by chatdumauvais on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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[beable]

Your Score: Good Student

You scored 63 % reading depth, 65 % reading breadth, 65 % eclecticism - #CATEGORY#

You've read widely, but haven't really dipped into the lives of the authors, literary theory, or history. Or you've read different books than the test author, which is entirely possible.

Link: The Are you literary? Test written by chatdumauvais on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I enjoyed picking all the snarky answers on principle, even if I didn't know if they were all right (e.g. I know nothing about Elizabeth Bennet).

And one of my favourite things about Harlan Ellison's Again, Dangerous Visions is the introduction to James Tiptree, Jr.'s story in which he talks about how if Kate Wilhelm is the female voice of our generation then Jampes Tiptree, Jr. is the male voice of it.

Childish of me perhaps, but one of those things that is really funny when you only come across the book in the 90's.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

How embarrassing--I got a 76. But then I'm crap on Chaucer, and I have no idea who writes vampires and who doesn't, outside or one or two.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I had trouble with some of the vampire questions, too! It's funny that my "English" flist people are complaining about the sf/fantasy content, and the "sf/fantasy" contingent complain about some of the lit questions!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm definitely in the genre camp--just, not really into vamps. My English literature knowledge is little more than mere dabbler level: since I'm not in academia, I only have to read what I want to, har har!

[gillo]

Me too - with the mortification, I mean. Though half my department would have scored lower because they don't consider Pratchett is lit. Or LeGuin. As for the vampires, they think I'm weird. (Might not be totally wrong there...)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I think my flist contains some rare individuals (like you and me and oursin who actually have a decent knowledge of sf/fantasy AND canonical lit.

[gillo]

That's what I enjoy about LJ - I met oursin through both you and chickenfeet2003(who friended me because we both went to Durham University) - and thence I met owlfish and brisingamen - it's so good to find people with the same range of interests, not just the single point of contact.

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Shame on me, I got a 65%. I was really bested by all the scifi stuff. Or it's possible I could be dumb!

I'd like to see someone (intertext?) create a better literary quiz, actually. I'm not sure how one can test reading breadth and not include, well, more? Hahaha, probably just sour grapes.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was quite biased on the sf/fantasy readership, and that quite specialized. I was fortunate that what I didn't know I could guess (hence the 92% instead of 100!) lidocafe, you're not dumb! Maybe if I can find the time I'll make another quiz :)