As I Lay Dying Quiz
In this novel of so many voices, can you remember who said what? Is it the youngest Bundren speaking in metaphor and poetic prose, or the educated city folk? Test your ear and memory by identifying the speakers of the following passages:


 1. "For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it wont stand a whole lot of racking."
2. "If it had just been me when Cash fell off of that church and if it had just been me when pa laid sick with that load of wood fell on him, it would not be happening with every bastard in the county coming in to stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for."
3. "If [the Lord] a aimed for a man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would."
4. "The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightening."
5. "I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind… ."






6. "The trees look like chickens when they ruffle out into the cool dust on the hot days."
7. "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."
8. "I am bounding toward God and my reward."
9. "That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit what they are trying to say at."
10. "It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse…."