Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

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

Three

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Short story

Novel

Play

Epic poem
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Ireland

England

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Aberdeen

Glasgow

Portsmouth

London
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

1992

1990

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Big Shug

Leek

Shuggie
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?
A chemist's

A grocery store

A bakery

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

Chickens

Fish

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

Brick Layers

Kilfeathers

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

Simile

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
A supermarket

A doctor's office

A bedsit in a boarding house

An apartment in New York
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?
Geordie

Scouse

Welsh

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

Beer

Fizzy pop

Bottled water
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Umbrella

Old dog

Child

Car
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

Watch TV with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
1

20

15

32
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?
Past tense

It is unclear

Present tense

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

1989

1992

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His grandmother

His stepmother

His sister
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?
Leech

Lean

Leek

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

Big Shug

Howard

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

Margaret

Catherine

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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