Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Five

Three

Four

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Epic poem

Novel

Short story

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

Scotland

France

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?

1990

1980

1992

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?

Leek

Shuggie

Big Shug

Agnes
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?

A grocery store

A cobbler's

A bakery

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

Dogs

Chickens

Fish

Lambs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?

Stone Eaters

Brick Layers

Bird Bakers

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

Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
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?

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

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

Scouse

Glaswegian

Welsh

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

Beer

Bottled water

Wine

Fizzy pop
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Umbrella

Old dog

Child

Car
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?

Have sex with him

Burn down the boarding house

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

15

1

20

32
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?

It is unclear

Future tense

Present tense

Past tense
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 stepmother

His sister

His grandmother

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

Leek

Lean

Derek

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

Howard

Big Shug

Roland

Eugene
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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