Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

Grant Colson

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Five

Four

Three

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Short story

Epic poem

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
England

France

Scotland

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

1992

1990

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?
Leek

Agnes

Big Shug

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

A bakery

A cobbler's

A grocery store
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

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

Metonymy

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

An apartment in New York

A supermarket

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings

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

Scouse

Geordie

Welsh
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

Car

Child

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

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

1

20

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Shuggie

Agnes

An unnamed first-person narrator

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

It is unclear

Present tense

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

1981

1992

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His stepmother

His mother

His grandmother

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

Derek

Leech

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

Howard

Eugene

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

Katy

Margaret

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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