Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Douglas Stuart

Grant Colson

Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Two

Three

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Novel

Short story

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
England

Ireland

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Glasgow

Aberdeen

Portsmouth
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

1992

2001

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Agnes

Shuggie

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

A bakery

A cobbler's

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

Lambs

Chickens

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

Bird Bakers

Stone Eaters

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

Metonymy

Foreshadowing

Metaphor
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
A doctor's office

A supermarket

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?
Consumer spending reports

Chess openings

Results of football games

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

Glaswegian

Geordie

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

Bottled water

Beer

Fizzy pop
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Car

Umbrella

Child

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

Burn down the boarding house

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

20

15

1
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?
Past tense

Present tense

It is unclear

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

1993

1992

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His grandmother

His sister

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

Derek

Leek

Leech
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Roland

Howard

Eugene

Big Shug
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Catherine

Margaret

Liz

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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