Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Four

Three

Two

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Play

Novel

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

Scotland

France

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

London

Portsmouth

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
1990

1992

1980

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?
Shuggie

Agnes

Big Shug

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

A grocery store

A bakery

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

Lambs

Chickens

Dogs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?
Stone Eaters

Kilfeathers

Bird Bakers

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

Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
A doctor's office

A supermarket

An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Results of football games
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?
Wine

Fizzy pop

Bottled water

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Car

Umbrella

Child

Old dog
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?
20

1

32

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Agnes

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

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

Future tense

It is unclear

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1993

1992

1981

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His grandmother

His mother

His sister

His stepmother
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?
Leech

Leek

Derek

Lean
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Roland

Big Shug

Eugene

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

Liz

Catherine

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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