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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

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1. In Cora Tull's opinion, which Bundren son loves his mother the most?

(A) Jewel

(B) Cash

(D) Darl

2. For whom do Darl and Jewel make a delivery?

(A) Anse

(B) Peabody

(D) Addie

3. Who is the father of Dewey Dell's unborn child?

(A) Vernon Tull

(B) MacGowan

(D) Whitfield

4. How did Cash break his leg the first time?

(A) Falling off a church

(B) Crossing a flooded river

(D) Trying to ride Jewel's horse

5. What does Vardaman think his mother is?

(A) A horse

(B) A buzzard

(D) A fish

6. What is Cash saving his money to buy?

(A) A new saw

(B) A gramophone

(D) A new horse for Jewel

7. What was Addie's profession before she was married?

(A) Teacher

(B) Nurse

(D) Undertaker

8. From what disability does Anse Bundren suffer?

(A) A game leg

(B) Blindness

(D) A hunchback

9. Whose barn does Darl burn down?

(A) Samson's

(B) Gillespie's

(D) Armstid's

10. With what object in a store window is Vardaman obsessed?

(A) A fishing pole

(B) Bananas

(D) A drug that claims to bring the dead back to life

11. With what literary movement is Faulkner most often associated?

(A) Social realism

(B) Modernism

(D) Romanticism

12. What is the name of the fictional county in which Faulkner sets a large number of his novels?

(A) Bloom

(B) Kranakapchote

(D) Jefferson

13. What is Anse looking forward to buying when the family gets to Jefferson?

(A) A new team of mules

(B) A headstone for Addie

(D) A set of false teeth

14. Who builds Addie's coffin?

(A) Anse

(B) Cash

(D) Vardaman

15. Which Bundren child is not Anse's?

(A) Jewel

(B) Cash

(D) Dewey Dell

16. What is in the capsules that MacGowan prepares for Dewey Dell?

(A) Turpentine

(B) A sleeping potion

(D) An herb that induces abortion

17. What is the first thing Jewel saves from the fire?

(A) Cash

(B) Addie's coffin

(D) The family's money

18. What is Whitfield's occupation?

(A) Farmer

(B) Minister

(D) Doctor

19. Why does Jewel insult a man on the road as the family nears Jefferson?

(A) The man mentions the smell of Addie's corpse

(B) The man tries to steal Jewel's horse

(D) The man is tailgating the Bundrens' wagon

20. How does Cash make it to shore after the accident?

(A) Darl rescues him

(B) Jewel rescues him

(D) He gets caught in some bushes

21. Why does Cash's leg turn black?

(A) His cast is poorly made

(B) He gets burned in the fire

(D) He reacts to the medicine Dewey Dell gives him

22. Why does Vardaman drill holes in his mother's coffin?

(A) He wants to get her out

(B) He wants to see her

(D) He wants to hurt her

23. Which of the following does Anse not use to buy a new team?

(A) Money from the sale of Jewel's horse

(B) Money from his own false teeth fund

(D) Money from Darl's savings

24. Who helps the Bundrens pull wreckage from the river?

(A) Samson

(B) Tull

(D) Gillespie

25. About whom does Addie say, “He is my cross and he will be my salvation”?

(A) Anse

(B) Jewel

(D) Whitfield

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