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As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner Biography

About As I Lay Dying

Summary and Analysis

Sections 1–5
Sections 6–10
Sections 11–14
Sections 15–23
Sections 24–27
Sections 28–38
Sections 39–41
Sections 42–44
Sections 45–47
Sections 48–51
Sections 52–54
Sections 55–59

Character List

Character Analysis

Anse Bundren
Cash
Jewel
Dewey Dell
Vardaman

Critical Essays

Addie Bundren and the Birth of Her Children
Darl and Addie Bundren: A General Interpretation
Faulkner's Style and Imagery

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1:  Jewel’s love for his mother is

a. easily communicated

b. gentle

c. manifested in harsh words

d. frighteningly obsessive
2:  How does Faulkner interrupt the seriousness of building the coffin?

a. By recalling a funny anecdote

b. By describing a party

c. By reminiscing about Addie and Anse’s romance

d. By giving historical detail about the town
3:  Anse covers up for his laziness by

a. pretending he is having a heart attack

b. reading voraciously

c. claiming that if he sweats, he will die

d. telling everyone what to do while he just sits
4:  Dewey Dell hates her brother Darl because

a. he makes her build the coffin

b. he taunts her about her pregnancy

c. she blames him for their mother’s illness

d. he doesn't have any money or ambition
5:  Anse does not want to call the doctor because he

a. knows a doctor cannot help Addie now

b. believes he can take care of Addie better than a doctor

c. is busy with his chores and errands

d. does not want to pay a doctor
6:  Vardaman confuses his dead mother with

a. Dr. Peabody

b. his dead fish

c. Dewey Dell

d. the coffin
7:  Cash cannot grieve for his mother because

a. she never expressed any love for him

b. he does not believe she is dead

c. he is not finished building her coffin

d. he is too busy preparing to go to Jefferson
8:  Cash’s personal sphere is

a. measured and regulated

b. insightful and introspective

c. angry and violent

d. confused and disoriented
9:  When Sampson sees the Bundrens traveling, he assumes they are

a. setting out to bury Addie

b. taking a family vacation

c. seeking out a doctor for Dewey Dell

d. buying supplies for the farm
10:  In order to get to Jefferson, the Bundrens must

a. get permission to travel with a coffin

b. travel halfway around a lake

c. make the journey entirely on foot

d. cross the river where the bridge is out
11:  In her affair with Preacher Whitfield, Addie was looking for

a. atonement

b. violence

c. understanding

d. rejection
12:  Addie wants to be buried in Jefferson so that she can

a. bankrupt her children

b. be laid to rest near her family

c. force Anse into action

d. take revenge on Preacher Whitfield
13:  The buzzards remind readers that

a. dead animals lay exposed on the road

b. Addie’s body is decaying

c. Darl’s mind is sinking into madness

d. the family is as hungry as the birds
14:  Darl burns the barn because he

a. needs to comment on the futility of running a farm

b. wants Vardaman to understand him more fully

c. is sinking into madness and, therefore, fears the mules

d. wants to give his mother a proper funeral
15:  Anse allows Darl to be declared insane because

a. Anse does not want to pay for the barn

b. Anse’s grief for Addie clouds his judgment

c. Anse wants to protect Dahl from his insanity

d. Darl will have new friends in the asylum



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