Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Grant Colson

McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Three

Two

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Short story

Play

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

France

Ireland

England

Scotland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?

1990

1992

2001

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?

Big Shug

Leek

Shuggie

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

A chemist's

A cobbler's

A grocery store

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

Fish

Chickens

Lambs

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

Kilfeathers

Stone Eaters

Bird Bakers

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

Metonymy

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

A supermarket

A bedsit in a boarding house

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 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?

Bottled water

Fizzy pop

Wine

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Child

Car

Old dog

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

Fix his radiator

Burn down the boarding house

Have sex with him

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

20

32

15

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?

It is unclear

Present tense

Future tense

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

1981

1993

1989

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His mother

His sister

His stepmother

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

Leek

Leech

Lean

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

Roland

Eugene

Big Shug

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

Margaret

Catherine

Liz

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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