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?
Three

Four

Five

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Play

Short story

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Scotland

England

Ireland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Aberdeen

London

Portsmouth

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1992

1980

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Leek

Agnes

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

A chemist's

A grocery store

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

Fish

Dogs

Chickens
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?
Brick Layers

Bird Bakers

Kilfeathers

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

Metonymy

Metaphor

Simile
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?
Results of football games

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings
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"?
Old dog

Car

Child

Umbrella
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?
Watch TV with him

Burn down the boarding house

Fix his radiator

Have sex 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

Past tense

Present tense

Future tense
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 stepmother

His sister

His grandmother
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?
Katy

Catherine

Liz

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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