Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

Grant Colson
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Four

Three

Two

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Play

Novel

Epic poem

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

England

Scotland

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Portsmouth

Glasgow

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

2001

1992

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Big Shug

Shuggie

Leek
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?
Fish

Chickens

Dogs

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

Brick Layers

Bird Bakers

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

Metaphor

Simile

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

A doctor's office

A supermarket

An apartment in New York
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Results of football games

Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Glaswegian

Geordie

Scouse

Welsh
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

Child

Car

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

Burn down the boarding house

Fix his radiator

Have sex with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
15

32

1

20
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?
Past tense

Future tense

It is unclear

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1981

1992

1993

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His stepmother

His mother

His sister

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

Leech

Leek

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

Eugene

Howard

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

Katy

Liz

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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