Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
McClelland Stuart

Grant Colson

Hugh Bain

Douglas Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Five

Four

Three

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Short story

Epic poem

Novel

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
England

Scotland

France

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

Glasgow

London

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

2001

1990

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Shuggie

Agnes

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

A bakery

A chemist's

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

Dogs

Lambs

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

Kilfeathers

Bird Bakers

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

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?
Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports

Results of football games

Chess openings
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Welsh

Geordie

Glaswegian

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

Beer

Bottled water

Wine
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Child

Car

Umbrella

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

Watch TV with him

Burn down the boarding house

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

15

1

20
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes

Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
Present tense

Past tense

It is unclear

Future tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1992

1981

1993

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His stepmother

His grandmother

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

Leech

Derek

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

Big Shug

Roland

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

Katy

Margaret

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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