Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Douglas Stuart

Grant Colson

McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Five

Three

Two

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Short story

Novel

Play

Epic poem
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

England

Scotland

France

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

Portsmouth

Aberdeen

London
6 In what year does the story begin?

1990

1980

2001

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?

Big Shug

Leek

Agnes

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

A chemist's

A grocery store

A cobbler's

A bakery
9 What animals is Shuggie preparing for sale at the beginning of the book?

Chickens

Fish

Dogs

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

Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

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

Metonymy

Metaphor

Foreshadowing

Simile
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?

A supermarket

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house
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?

Fizzy pop

Bottled water

Wine

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Umbrella

Car

Child

Old dog
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

Have sex with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

20

15

1

32
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

Agnes

Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

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

Future tense

Past tense

It is unclear

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

1992

1989

1981

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His sister

His grandmother

His stepmother

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

Leech

Lean

Derek

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

Roland

Big Shug

Howard

Eugene
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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