Trainspotting (Film) Quizzes

Trainspotting (Film) Quiz 1

1 What is the setting of the opening chase scene in Trainspotting?
The inside of a mall in downtown Edinburgh

A commercial area of Edinburgh

A commercial area of Glasgow

Greater Edinburgh - Leith
2 Who do we see fleeing the guards in the opening scene?
Renton, Spud, and Sick Boy

Renton and Spud

Sick Boy and Spud

Just Spud
3 What makes Renton stop running?
He trips and falls

He is hit by a car

He stops to pick something up

He is caught by a guard
4 Spud's performance at the soccer match first characterizes him as...
kind-hearted

incompetent

trusting

addicted to heroin
5 Renton's identical fall in the soccer match and while on heroin draws a parallel that...
compares the 'high' from heroin to getting hit in the head

implies that Renton's lack of athleticism is caused by his heroin use

suggests that heroin causes temporal confusion

helps convey the physical impact of heroin to the viewer
6 Why does Renton claim he chose not to 'choose life'?
He is depressed

He hates society

No reasons

He had a bad upbringing
7 Renton cites what as the primary reason he and his friends do heroin?
Escapism

They can't break their addition

Depression

The pleasure of it
8 Sick Boy's first lines of the film consist of...
A description of how he will inject Allison with heroin

A description of a con job

A complaint about society

A monologue about Sean Connery's James Bond movies
9 Renton's dive into the toilet to rescue his suppositories further indicates his...
plans to finally quit heroin

desperate desire for the drug

his lack of fear

his preference for suppositories over intravenous injection
10 The underwater scene "inside" the toilet is a moment of...
Realism

Sentimentality

Sarcasm

Surrealism
11 Renton helps Spud prepare for his interview in all of the following ways EXCEPT...
He tells him not to do so poorly that they tell the unemployment office that he isn't trying

He tells him not to do so well that he actually gets the job

He gives him amphetamines

He quizzes him on possible questions they might ask
12 In Begbie's story, he brags about all of the following EXCEPT...
How well he scared away another tough guy

How kind he is to others

How well he kept his calm when someone was trying to intimidate him

How good he is at pool
13 What does Begbie's version of the story reveal about his character?
He is very concerned with the way others view him

He has a very short temper

He is very strong

He is very good at pool
14 Why do we see images of both Tommy's and Begbie's version of the story, if only one actually happened?
We are shown two separate incidents

Because Renton is imagining both versions as they are being described

Begbie is reenacting his story as he tells it

Both stories had some truth to them, and we are shown only those parts
15 What does Begbie do immediately after telling his story?
He pulls out his knife

He throws his glass over his shoulder, off the bar balcony

He punches a woman in the face

He re-enacts the story for his friends
16 Renton steals from all of the following to support his drug habit EXCEPT...
Doctors

Pensioners

His friends

His parents
17 Why does the bartender later wear the same red jacket as the tourist that Renton and his friends rob?
It is implied that Renton and his friends gave it to the bartender in exchange for his not reporting them to the police

We are meant to understand that the tourist died and Renton and his friends gave away all of his belongings

It is implied that the tourist gave it to the bartender to thank him for reporting Renton and his friends to the police

We are meant to understand that the bartender thought it looked nice and bought one himself
18 What is strange about Begbie's insistence that Renton does not spend the stolen money on heroin?
Begbie suddenly seems to show genuine care for his friend

Begbie plans to use it to buy heroin himself

Begbie just killed a man and seems to show no remorse

Begbie's violence and theft is equally or more harmful to society than Renton's drug use
19 How did Baby Dawn die?
She was crushed by Renton falling down after a hit

She was neglected in her crib while her parents were on heroin

She contracted HIV from her mother

She accidentally ingested some heroin
20 Why does Renton feel like he needs to say something comforting when they find out Baby Dawn died?
He is solely responsible for her death

He is the only one of his friends not responsible for her death

He is the only one of his friends who could not be the father

He knows his best friend Sick Boy is the father
21 What is Renton's response to everyone's misery at discovering the dead baby?
He says he will cook up another hit for everyone

He comforts Sick Boy by telling him it is not his fault

He tells them to grow up and get over it

He says they should all stop using heroin
22 Renton's nightmare withdrawal sequence mostly shows things about which he feels...
guilty

frustrated

angry

ambivalent
23 When Diane visits Renton, he does all of the following EXCEPT...
Shoot up with her

Sleep with her again

Share marijuana with her

Tell her he is HIV negative
24 All of the following are true of the initial London montage EXCEPT...
It provides a reminder of Renton's influence on the images in the film

It is campy and presents like a tourism video

It represents the positivity that moving to London brings to Renton's life

It shows Renton exploring London
25 Sick Boy and Begbie's interuption of Renton's life in London draws out...
The way his friends desperately need his help

The negative influence these two friends have on him

How close he is with his friends

The negative influence he has on his friends
26 The way that Renton's friends include him in the drug deal indicates that...
They intend to screw him over and rob him

They really care about his success

They use him, and do not care about his best interests

They are looking out for his financial interests
27 For whom does Renton leave money at the very end?
Begbie

His parents

Spud

Sick Boy

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