Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Grant Colson

McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Five

Four

Three

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Short story

Novel

Play

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

Ireland

Scotland

England
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

Aberdeen

Portsmouth

London
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1980

1990

1992
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 chemist's

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?
Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

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 doctor's office

An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Consumer spending reports

Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

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

Geordie

Welsh

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

Wine

Fizzy pop

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Child

Umbrella

Car

Old dog
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?
32

1

20

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Agnes

An unnamed first-person narrator

Shuggie

An unnamed third-person narrator
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
Future tense

Past tense

Present tense

It is unclear
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 stepmother

His mother

His grandmother

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

Lean

Leech

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

Eugene

Big Shug

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

Liz

Catherine

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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