Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain

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

Four

Three

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Short story

Play

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Ireland

Scotland

England

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Aberdeen

Portsmouth

London

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1980

1992

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Leek

Shuggie

Agnes

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

A bakery

A chemist's

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

Fish

Dogs

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

Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters
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

A supermarket

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports

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

Welsh

Scouse

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

Wine

Fizzy pop

Bottled water
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Umbrella

Car

Old dog

Child
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?
1

20

32

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes

An unnamed first-person narrator

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

Past tense

It is unclear

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

1993

1981

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His stepmother

His grandmother

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

Leech

Lean

Derek
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Eugene

Big Shug

Howard

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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