The author's preference for books helped her to _________.

A. travel across the physical world
B. become a loser
C. travel into her own spiritual world
D. find her home, her sustenance, her great invincible companion

What does the "crisis" faced by reading in the author's time refer to ?

A. love of pure reading
B. the bias
C. the American character
D. the professionals’opinions

The author advocated a kind of reading for _________.

A. career prospects
B. self-improvement
C. the sheer pleasure
D. literary criticism

What is the "truth" of reading the author advocated?

A. Reading is couched as a series of problems to be addressed.
B. Reading is a way to divide a country and a culture into the literati and everyone else.
Critics and scholars have a kind of exclusivity surrounding discussions of reading.
D. Reading is not to judge the reading of others but to take the measure of oneself.

How did reading change the author's life?