The purpose of these pages is to help you gain insight into your reading experience: your style, preferences, and strategies, as well as works you have read. While reading literature is certainly not simply a matter of skills, these pages can give you a glimpse of what you know about literary skills as well.

What is your background and what are your practices as a reader of literature? The goal of determining this is not to judge your ability to read or comprehend. Rather it is to determine your way of doing things and in so doing to suggest that there may be other possibilities.

• Try the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ): This interactive questionnaire, designed and tested by David Miall and Don Kuiken, will ask you a series of questions about your feelings and attitudes toward literature. It will report to you a set of scores that will profile your responses in nine scores along seven dimensions. Explanations of each of the dimensions help you reflect on traditional literary values.
• Assessing Literary Repertoire: What is your repertoire and how does it impact your reading?
• Assessing Reading Strategies: How many ways are there to read the same thing? How can awareness of the ways we learn and read help you appreciate the act of reading literature better? Look here to begin thinking about how you read. Do you persist? Do you think about your strategies? Do you consider broader factors such as your schema and ideologies?

On the other hand, there are specific facts and terms that you can know. Are you a newbie, a moderately well informed student of literature, or a true bibliophile? Proceed to this page to get a sense of that!

• Potpourri of Quizzes about Literature

For assessing your reading of specific works of literature, see the pages on Studying Specific Works of Literature.