Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

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

Four

Three

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Epic poem

Play

Short story
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Scotland

France

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1990

1992

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Leek

Shuggie

Big Shug

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

A bakery

A cobbler's

A chemist'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?
Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

Kilfeathers
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 doctor's office

An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of football games

Results of cricket matches
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Geordie

Glaswegian

Scouse

Welsh
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Wine

Bottled water

Beer

Fizzy pop
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Child

Old dog

Umbrella

Car
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

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
15

1

20

32
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

Shuggie

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

Present tense

It is unclear

Future tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1981

1993

1992

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His stepmother

His grandmother

His sister

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

Leech

Derek

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

Eugene

Roland

Howard
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Margaret

Katy

Liz

Catherine

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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