Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
McClelland Stuart

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Two

Three

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Novel

Play

Short story
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
England

Ireland

France

Scotland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Portsmouth
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1980

1990

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?
Leek

Agnes

Shuggie

Big Shug
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?
A chemist's

A bakery

A cobbler's

A grocery store
9 What animals is Shuggie preparing for sale at the beginning of the book?
Dogs

Chickens

Fish

Lambs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?
Kilfeathers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

Bird Bakers
11 "His feet hit the floor ... like bags of heavy butcher's meat" is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor

Metonymy

Foreshadowing

Simile
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Consumer spending reports

Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

Results of football games
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Glaswegian

Scouse

Welsh

Geordie
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Bottled water

Fizzy pop

Beer

Wine
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Old dog

Umbrella

Car

Child
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?
Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him

Fix his radiator

Have sex with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

20

15

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed third-person narrator

Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
It is unclear

Past tense

Future tense

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1992

1981

1989

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His grandmother

His sister

His mother

His stepmother
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?
Derek

Leek

Leech

Lean
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Big Shug

Eugene

Howard

Roland
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Margaret

Liz

Catherine

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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