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?
Four

Five

Three

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Short story

Play

Novel

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

England

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Portsmouth

Glasgow

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1990

1992

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Leek

Agnes

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

A grocery store

A cobbler's

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

Lambs

Chickens

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

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

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

Simile

Metonymy

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

A supermarket

An apartment in New York

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Results of football games

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings

Consumer spending reports
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?
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?
Fix his radiator

Have sex with him

Watch TV with him

Burn down the boarding house
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
15

1

32

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

An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes

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?
1981

1992

1989

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His stepmother

His sister

His grandmother
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?
Lean

Derek

Leech

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

Roland

Howard

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

Catherine

Margaret

Liz

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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