Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Two

Five

Four

Three
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Short story

Novel

Play
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Scotland

Ireland

England

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Aberdeen

Portsmouth

London

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1992

1980

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Shuggie

Agnes

Leek

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

A chemist's

A cobbler's

A bakery
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?
Kilfeathers

Stone Eaters

Brick Layers

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

Metonymy

Simile

Foreshadowing
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
A bedsit in a boarding house

A supermarket

An apartment in New York

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Results of football games

Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Scouse

Geordie

Glaswegian

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

Fizzy pop

Wine

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

Child

Old dog

Umbrella
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?
15

1

32

20
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Agnes

Shuggie

An unnamed third-person narrator

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

Present tense

It is unclear

Past tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1992

1981

1993

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His grandmother

His stepmother

His sister

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

Lean

Derek

Leech
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Eugene

Roland

Howard

Big Shug
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Liz

Catherine

Margaret

Katy

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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