Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

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

Five

Two

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Novel

Play

Short story
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
France

Scotland

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Portsmouth

Aberdeen

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
1992

2001

1990

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Shuggie

Leek

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

A bakery

A grocery store

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

Fish

Lambs

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

Bird Bakers

Kilfeathers

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

Metaphor

Foreshadowing

Simile
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
An apartment in New York

A supermarket

A doctor's office

A bedsit in a boarding house
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of football games

Results of cricket matches
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Geordie

Glaswegian

Welsh

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

Wine

Bottled water

Beer
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?
Fix his radiator

Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
20

15

32

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

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

Past tense

Present tense

Future tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1993

1992

1981

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His grandmother

His mother

His stepmother

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

Lean

Leek

Leech
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Howard

Big Shug

Eugene

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

Katy

Catherine

Liz

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by Douglas Stuart

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