Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain

Grant Colson
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Two

Four

Three

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Epic poem

Play

Short story

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

Ireland

Scotland

England

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Aberdeen

London

Glasgow

Portsmouth
6 In what year does the story begin?

1990

1992

1980

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?

Big Shug

Leek

Shuggie

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

A bakery

A grocery store

A chemist's

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

Dogs

Fish

Chickens

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

Bird Bakers

Kilfeathers

Brick Layers

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

Metaphor

Metonymy
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?

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?

Geordie

Welsh

Glaswegian

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

Beer

Wine

Fizzy pop

Bottled water
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Car

Umbrella

Old dog

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

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

Burn down the boarding house
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

20

15

32

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

Shuggie

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?

Future tense

It is unclear

Present tense

Past 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 mother

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

Leek

Lean

Leech

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

Eugene

Howard

Big Shug

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

Katy

Catherine

Liz

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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