Elite Quiz [was Re: melancholy, Mason, Lolita]

[Keith McMullen]

Select four.

A good reader should:

(1) ...belong to a book club.
(2) ...identify with the hero or heroine.
(3) ...concentrate on the socio-economic angle.
(4) ...prefer a story with action and dialogue to one with none.
(5) ...have highly developed sphincters.
(6) ...be a budding author.
(7) ...have imagination.
(8) ...have memory.
(9) ...have a dictionary.
(10) ...have some artistic sense.

    --from 'Good Readers and Good Writers' by Nabokov
       (with one choice changed for the P-list).