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.

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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.

[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...)

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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.