Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Four

Two

Three

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Play

Epic poem

Novel

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

France

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

Portsmouth

Aberdeen

London
6 In what year does the story begin?
1992

1990

2001

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Shuggie

Agnes

Big Shug

Leek
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?
A bakery

A chemist's

A grocery store

A cobbler's
9 What animals is Shuggie preparing for sale at the beginning of the book?
Fish

Lambs

Dogs

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

Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters
11 "His feet hit the floor ... like bags of heavy butcher's meat" is an example of what literary device?
Simile

Foreshadowing

Metaphor

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

An apartment in New York

A supermarket

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

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

Glaswegian

Scouse

Welsh
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Fizzy pop

Wine

Bottled water

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Car

Umbrella

Old dog

Child
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?
Have sex with him

Fix his radiator

Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
20

32

1

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

An unnamed third-person narrator
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
Future tense

It is unclear

Past tense

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1989

1981

1992

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His stepmother

His sister

His mother

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

Leek

Lean

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

Howard

Eugene

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

Catherine

Margaret

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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