Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Grant Colson

McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain

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

Four

Five

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Short story

Play

Epic poem
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Ireland

France

Scotland

England
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

London

Portsmouth

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
1992

1980

1990

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Leek

Big Shug

Shuggie
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?
Lambs

Fish

Chickens

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

Stone Eaters

Bird Bakers

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

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor
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 cricket matches

Results of football games

Chess openings

Consumer spending reports
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

Bottled water

Beer

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

Old dog

Car

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

Fix his radiator

Burn down the boarding house

Have sex with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

1

15

20
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?
Present tense

It is unclear

Past tense

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

1981

1992

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His grandmother

His sister

His mother

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

Derek

Leech

Leek
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Howard

Roland

Big Shug

Eugene
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Catherine

Liz

Margaret

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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