Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart

Douglas Stuart

Grant Colson
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?
Two

Five

Four

Three
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Play

Short story

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
France

England

Ireland

Scotland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Portsmouth

Glasgow

London

Aberdeen
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1980

1992

1990
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Leek

Shuggie

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

A bakery

A cobbler's

A grocery store
9 What animals is Shuggie preparing for sale at the beginning of the book?
Lambs

Chickens

Fish

Dogs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?
Stone Eaters

Kilfeathers

Brick Layers

Bird Bakers
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?
An apartment in New York

A doctor's office

A supermarket

A bedsit in a boarding house
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Consumer spending reports

Results of cricket matches

Results of football games

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

Welsh

Geordie

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

Fizzy pop

Wine

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

Child

Old dog

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

Fix his radiator

Watch TV with him

Burn down the boarding house
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
20

1

15

32
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

Shuggie

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

Past tense

Present tense

It is unclear
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1993

1992

1981

1989
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His mother

His grandmother

His sister

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

Derek

Leek

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

Big Shug

Roland

Howard
25 What is Shuggie's sister's name?
Catherine

Katy

Margaret

Liz

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by Douglas Stuart

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