Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain

Grant Colson

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

Three

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Play

Short story

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

France

Scotland

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

London

Aberdeen

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
1990

1992

1980

2001
7 Who is the protagonist?
Leek

Shuggie

Big Shug

Agnes
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?
A chemist's

A cobbler's

A grocery store

A bakery
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

Kilfeathers

Brick Layers

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

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

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York

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

Results of cricket matches

Chess openings

Consumer spending reports
14 What dialect of English do many characters in the novel speak?
Geordie

Welsh

Scouse

Glaswegian
15 What does Mr. Darling give Shuggie that he pretends to drink?
Fizzy pop

Wine

Bottled water

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?
Child

Umbrella

Old dog

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

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

Burn down the boarding house
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
15

20

32

1
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?
Past tense

Future tense

It is unclear

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

1992

1981

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His grandmother

His stepmother

His sister
23 What is Shuggie's brother's name?
Leech

Leek

Derek

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

Eugene

Roland

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

Catherine

Katy

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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