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?

Two

Five

Four

Three
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Epic poem

Novel

Play

Short story
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

France

Ireland

England

Scotland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

London

Portsmouth

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?

2001

1990

1980

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?

Shuggie

Leek

Agnes

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

A bakery

A chemist's

A grocery store

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

Chickens

Lambs

Fish

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

Metonymy

Simile

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

A supermarket

A bedsit in a boarding house

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 football games

Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports
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?

Wine

Beer

Bottled water

Fizzy pop
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Child

Old dog

Car

Umbrella
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

Have sex with him

Burn down the boarding house
18 How many chapters does the book contain?

1

20

15

32
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Shuggie

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?

Future tense

It is unclear

Present tense

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

1992

1993

1981

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His mother

His sister

His grandmother

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

Derek

Leek

Leech

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

Howard

Roland

Big Shug

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

Liz

Katy

Catherine

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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