Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Hugh Bain

Douglas Stuart

McClelland Stuart

Grant Colson
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Three

Two

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Short story

Epic poem

Play

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

Ireland

England

Scotland

France
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Portsmouth

Aberdeen

Glasgow

London
6 In what year does the story begin?

1980

1990

2001

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?

Big Shug

Leek

Agnes

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

A grocery store

A chemist's

A bakery

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

Fish

Chickens

Dogs

Lambs
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?

Stone Eaters

Bird Bakers

Kilfeathers

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

Metaphor

Simile

Foreshadowing

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

A supermarket

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York

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

Results of cricket matches

Consumer spending reports

Chess openings

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

Glaswegian

Geordie

Welsh

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

Wine

Bottled water

Fizzy pop

Beer
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

Have sex with him

Fix his radiator

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

32

20

15

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

Shuggie
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?

Future tense

Present tense

Past tense

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

1989

1981

1993

1992
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His stepmother

His grandmother

His mother

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

Derek

Lean

Leek

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

Roland

Eugene

Big Shug

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

Catherine

Liz

Katy

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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