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title: "Ask questions about what you are reading | ContextCat"
description: "Ask a question about a page, a paragraph or your whole document and get an answer from the text, or ask ContextCat to quiz you on what you just read."
url: https://contextcat.app/features/ask
---

[ContextCat](https://contextcat.app/)[Features](https://contextcat.app/features)

# Ask about what you are reading

Stuck on a paragraph, or not sure you followed the argument? Ask. ContextCat answers from the document you are reading.

[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737737343?pt=122713589&ct=site_feature_ask&mt=8)



## Questions about the text

Ask about the whole document or about the paragraph you are on. The answer is built from the pages of the document, so it talks about your text, not the topic in general.

Type the question, or tap the microphone and say it. Each document keeps its own conversations, so you can come back to one later.

## Quiz me

Ask for a quiz on a paragraph and you get a few short questions on what it says, with the answer explained. It is a quick way to check you understood, not just decoded.

## Where it works

Ask works on books from the Store, your PDFs, links and pasted texts. It is not available on news articles from Today.

Free: 5 questions to try. ContextCat Pro: up to 40 questions a day. [Pricing](https://contextcat.app/pricing)

## Questions

### Can Ask read figures and tables?

Yes. Figures from a PDF are kept with the page, and you can ask about them.

## More of ContextCat

-   [Tap any word](https://contextcat.app/features/tap-any-word): Tap a word in anything you read and ContextCat explains what it means in that sentence, in your own language, right under the line you are reading.
-   [Today's news](https://contextcat.app/features/news): Every day ContextCat collects headlines from real outlets in the language you read. Open one, read it in the app and tap any word you do not know.
-   [PDFs, links and books](https://contextcat.app/features/pdfs-and-books): Import a PDF, save a link to any web article or paste text, then read it in ContextCat and tap any word for its meaning in that sentence, in your language.
-   [Listen](https://contextcat.app/features/listen): ContextCat reads your book, PDF or article aloud in a natural voice, sentence by sentence, highlighting the words as they are spoken, with speed and repeat controls.
-   [Cards](https://contextcat.app/features/cards): Every word you tap in ContextCat is saved with its sentence and comes back as a card just before you would forget it, using spaced repetition.
-   [Stories](https://contextcat.app/features/stories): Coming in ContextCat 1.1: short stories written at your level, and a daily serial for English learners, two minutes an episode. What exists today and what is next.