Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart

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

Two

Four

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Short story

Play

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

Ireland

England

Scotland
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?
Agnes

Shuggie

Big Shug

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

A cobbler's

A grocery store

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

Lambs

Dogs

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

Brick Layers

Bird Bakers

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

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

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York

A supermarket
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Results of football games
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Glaswegian

Scouse

Welsh

Geordie
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Fizzy pop

Bottled water

Wine

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Car

Child

Old dog

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

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

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

20

32

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

An unnamed third-person narrator

Shuggie
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
Past tense

Present tense

Future tense

It is unclear
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1993

1981

1989

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His grandmother

His sister

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

Lean

Derek

Leek
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Big Shug

Howard

Eugene

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

Katy

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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