Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Four

Five

Two

Three
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Epic poem

Short story

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
England

France

Ireland

Scotland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

Glasgow

London

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1992

1980

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Big Shug

Shuggie

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

A cobbler's

A chemist's

A grocery store
9 What animals is Shuggie preparing for sale at the beginning of the book?
Lambs

Chickens

Dogs

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

Bird Bakers

Kilfeathers

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

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

A doctor's office

A supermarket

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

Results of cricket matches

Results of football games

Consumer spending reports
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Welsh

Scouse

Glaswegian

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

Fizzy pop

Beer

Wine
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Car

Old dog

Child

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

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him

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

32

15

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

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

It is unclear

Future tense

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1989

1992

1993

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His stepmother

His grandmother

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

Leek

Derek

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

Howard

Eugene

Big Shug
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Margaret

Katy

Liz

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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