Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

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1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Five

Two

Three

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Play

Epic poem

Short story

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

England

Ireland

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?

2001

1992

1980

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?

Leek

Shuggie

Big Shug

Agnes
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?

A grocery store

A cobbler's

A bakery

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

Lambs

Dogs

Fish

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?

Metaphor

Metonymy

Simile

Foreshadowing
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

Results of football games

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?

Scouse

Glaswegian

Welsh

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

Beer

Fizzy pop

Bottled water

Wine
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Old dog

Car

Child

Umbrella
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?

Watch TV with him

Fix his radiator

Burn down the boarding house

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

1

15

32

20
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

An unnamed first-person narrator

Shuggie

Agnes

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

Past tense

Present tense

Future tense

It is unclear
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?

1981

1993

1992

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His stepmother

His grandmother

His sister

His mother
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?

Lean

Leech

Derek

Leek
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?

Big Shug

Eugene

Roland

Howard
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?

Catherine

Margaret

Liz

Katy

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