Q 01/05

In As I Lay Dying, what does young Vardaman Bundren declare his mother to be after her death?

A) A bird

B) A fish

C) A rabbit

D) A horse

Answer · why

B) A fish

A fish is how the youngest Bundren makes sense of losing her, and one of his chapters is that single sentence. He had caught a big one that same day.

Q 02/05

In As I Lay Dying, Addie Bundren makes Anse promise to bury her among her own kin in which town?

A) Jefferson

B) Memphis

C) New Albany

D) Holly Springs

Answer · why

A) Jefferson

Jefferson is the end of a forty-mile trek that takes the family's wagon nine days, because a storm has flooded the river in between.

Q 03/05

Standing over his wife's body in As I Lay Dying, Anse Bundren says he can now get what?

A) A new wagon

B) A gold watch

C) A second farm

D) False teeth

Answer · why

D) False teeth

False teeth are Anse's private reason for hauling the coffin to town, and he buys a set there with money taken from his daughter.

Q 04/05

What does Darl Bundren set on fire near the end of As I Lay Dying, hoping to end the journey?

A) The wagon

B) A cotton gin

C) A barn

D) A hay field

Answer · why

C) A barn

A barn sheltering the coffin for the night goes up in flames, but Jewel drags his mother's body out and burns his back doing it.

Q 05/05

In As I Lay Dying, what do the Bundrens pour around Cash's broken leg as a homemade cast?

A) Cement

B) Plaster

C) Pine tar

D) River clay

Answer · why

A) Cement

Cement goes straight onto his bare skin and causes a horrible infection. When a doctor finally removes it, a large patch of skin comes away too.