This contest requires knowledge of literary history and of critical terms, and ability in literary criticism. Students are tested over material on the reading list and reqired to select the best answers involving judgment in literary criticism. Students must also analyze literary passages not on the reading list.

Four students from each school may participate in the district contest. The three students with the top three overall scores constitute the school's team.

This year's specific authors are:

Selected Poems by William Wordsworth

The play Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe