Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

Hugh Bain
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Two

Four

Five

Three
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Play

Novel

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

France

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

Aberdeen

Portsmouth

London
6 In what year does the story begin?
1990

1992

2001

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Big Shug

Leek

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

A grocery store

A cobbler's

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

Chickens

Dogs

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

Kilfeathers

Bird Bakers

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

Simile

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports

Results of football games
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Welsh

Glaswegian

Scouse

Geordie
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Beer

Fizzy pop

Wine

Bottled water
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Child

Umbrella

Car

Old dog
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

20

15

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed third-person narrator

Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
It is unclear

Present tense

Future tense

Past tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1989

1992

1993

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His stepmother

His mother

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

Derek

Leech

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

Roland

Big Shug

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

Margaret

Catherine

Liz

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