Nabokov - Good Readers and Writers

Nabokov’s Readers and Writers
Vladimir Nabokov has his ideas of what it takes to be a good reader and a good writer. He suggested a little quiz: ten definitions of a reader, and from these ten choose four definitions that would combine to make a good reader.

1. The reader should belong to a book club.
2. The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine.
3. The reader should concentrate on the social-economic angle.
4. The reader should prefer a story with action and dialogue to one with none.
5. The reader should have seen the book in a movie.
6. The reader should be a budding author.
7. The reader should have imagination.
8. The reader should have memory.
9. The reader should have a dictionary.
10. The reader should have some artistic sense.

I chose numbers 2, 7, 8, and 10 as the correct combination of definition that make a good reader. Nabokov believes in imagination, memory, a dictionary, and artis...