Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

McClelland Stuart

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Three

Four

Two

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Epic poem

Play

Novel

Short story
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

Ireland

England

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

Aberdeen

Portsmouth

London
6 In what year does the story begin?

2001

1990

1992

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?

Big Shug

Agnes

Leek

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

A bakery

A grocery store

A chemist's

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

Chickens

Fish

Dogs

Lambs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?

Bird Bakers

Stone Eaters

Kilfeathers

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

Foreshadowing

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?

An apartment in New York

A doctor's office

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

Results of football games

Consumer spending reports

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

Welsh

Scouse

Geordie

Glaswegian
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

Umbrella

Child

Car
17 What is it implied that Shuggie will do to get money from Mr. Darling in part one?

Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

1

32

15

20
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

Shuggie

An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes

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

Past tense

It is unclear

Future tense

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

1989

1981

1993

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His stepmother

His mother

His sister

His grandmother
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?

Derek

Leech

Lean

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

Roland

Big Shug

Howard

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

Catherine

Margaret

Katy

Liz

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