Pre-AP English S1 Exam 'As I Lay Dying'/Faulkner
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When was William Faulkner born?
September 25, 1897
Faulkner’s father worked as a business manager for…
The University of Mississippi
In 1949, Faulkner was awarded the…
Nobel Prize in Literature
When was As I Lay Dying published?
1930
Faulkner changed the spelling of his name because…
He wanted to enlist in the British Royal Air Force because he was too short for the US Army
Who is walking with Darl at the beginning of the novel?
Jewel
Darl describes Jewel’s eyes as being…
“like wood set into his wooden eyes”
Who is always sawing?
Cash
What happens to the cakes Cora bakes?
The rich woman who orders them decides not to buy them
How does Cora describe death?
Day to be with your loved ones and family
What did Addie see out the window?
Cash building her casket
What, according to Darl, should water never be drank from?
Metal
What part of Anse’s body is deformed?
His toes
What does Jewel cal his horse?
a “sweet son-of-a-bitch”
What does Jewel say about God?
“What the hell is He for?”
Which man in the family is the tallest?
Jewel
What promsie did Anse make to Addie?
To bring her to Jefferson
Who is “beholden to no man?”
Anse
Who is described as having tantrums and sulking spells?
Jewel
Who did not want to leave Addie to go into town?
Darl
Cora describes Addie as…
A lonely housewife
What did Dewey Dell say she would take as a sign?
Her sack being full
Why does Dewey Dell hate Darl?
Because he knows she is pregnant
What does Tull say about women?
That it is a hard life on a woman
What does Vardaman catch?
A fish
What does Anse think God never aimed for folks to live on?
A road
How does Anse feel about his sons?
Resentful
Why does Darl believe Dewey Dell wants Addie to die?
So she can get to town
What is Darl’s perspective on death?
It takes two people to make you and one people to die
How does Darl describe Peabody?
He has pussel-gutted himself
What does Peabody think about having to go check on Addie?
Doesn’t want to put that much effort into it; it is too late anyway
How does Peabody get up to see Addie?
They pull him up with a rope
What does Peabody think about death?
It is no more than a single tenant of family moving out of a tenement or town
What is the only thing that Addie moves?
Her eyes
Who does Addie call for?
Cash
According to Dewey Dell, who does Addie want?
Jewel
What does Addie do that she has not done before before she dies?
Raises herself
How does Dewey Dell react to Addie’s death?
Lays across bed and cries
What is the connection between the fish and Addie from Vardaman’s point of view?
They are both now dead and lfieless
Who does Vardaman believe killed his mom?
Peabody
What does Vardaman do in retaliation?
Stri,es and releases Peabody’s horses
According to Dewey Dell, who lets women know something bad has happened?
God
How long did it take Addie to die?
Ten days
What can Dewey Dell not do after Addie’s death?
Cry
What does Vardaman believe about his mother in the coffin?
It is not her
How old is Peabody?
70
Who makes it clear to Peabody that they want him to leave?
Dewey Dell
Who could “do so much” for Dewey Dell?
Peabody
What does Vardaman do to the team of horses in the barn?
Hits and lashes them
What turns up at Tull’s house?
:eabody’s team of horses
Why did Cash make the wood the way he did?
To create more grip surface for the nails, make the coffin more attractive, and make it a better fir for Addie
What, according to Tull, is Addie’s reward?
Being free of Anse
What does Cash repeatedly tell the men carrying Addie’s coffin?
That the coffin is not on balance
Who is rushing the men in moving the coffin?
Jewel
What is one thing the men do in order to search the river for Cash’s tools?
They steady themselves with an anchored rope
What sacrilege did Addie speak?
That Jewel would save her instead of God
What would Addie go down to the spring to do?
Hate her family
What would Addie look forward to?
Her children faulting so she could whip them
Whose house do the Bundrens arrive at following the river accident?
Back at Samson’s
What did Anse buy on credit?
A team
Following his injury, Cash…
Doesn’t complain
What does Moseley initially think Dewey Dell wants?
Medicine to stop her menstruation
What does Moseley advise Dewey Dell to buy?
A bottle nipple
What do the men at the wagon add to the cement mixture to thicken it?
Sand
What phrase does Cash repeat after the family pours water on his leg?
“I feel fine…I’m obliged to you”
Who tries to wrestle Jewel away from the burning barn?
Gillespie
Where did they place the coffin after removing it from the barn?
Under the apple tree
According to Cash, “it was either send him to_____, or have Gillespie sue us.”
Jackson
Cash tells Darl that him being sent away will…
Be better for him
MacGowan tells Dewey Dell to return that night so he can…
Perform an operation
After two men load Darl on the train, how does he talk about himself?
In third person
What does Anse say Dewey Dell had in her package?
Her Sunday clothes
Anse calls the money he took from Dewey Dell a…
Loan
Where di Anse go before “attending to some business”
The barbershop
What are Dewey Dell and Vardaman eating in the back of the wagon at the end of the novel?
Bananas
Who is the big tub of guts that is angry to help Anse
Peabody
Who picks in the secret shade and maybe ran away to Texas?
Lafe
Who is a respected person who wished to be honest with Anse before Addie died?
Whitfield
Who is Anse’s neighbor farmer who helps him because it is a habit?
Vernon Tull
Who is a soda server who takes advantage of Dewey Dell’s desperate situation?
MacGowen
Who thinks that words are meaningless and invented by those who have never experienced much?
Addie
Who is “Mrs. Bundren” with the graphophone and two spades?
The duck shaped woman
Who never thought God intended man to move?
Anse
Who is a deeply religious person who does not like Addie or Anse?
Cora
Who said “The Lord gave you what you have, even if He did use the devil to do it; you let Him take it away from you if it’s His will to do so. You go on back…and you and him take that ten dollars and get married with it.”
Mosely
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