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

Three

Two

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Epic poem

Short story

Novel

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

France

Scotland

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Portsmouth

London
6 In what year does the story begin?

1992

1980

2001

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?

Leek

Big Shug

Shuggie

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

A grocery store

A bakery

A chemist's

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

Fish

Dogs

Chickens

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

Stone Eaters

Brick Layers

Kilfeathers

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

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor

Foreshadowing
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?

A doctor's office

A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket

An apartment in New York
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?

Beer

Bottled water

Wine

Fizzy pop
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?

Burn down the boarding house

Have sex with him

Watch TV with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

1

15

20

32
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?

Present tense

Past tense

Future tense

It is unclear
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?

1981

1993

1989

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His mother

His grandmother

His sister

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

Derek

Leech

Lean

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

Howard

Eugene

Big Shug

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

Margaret

Liz

Katy

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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