Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?

Douglas Stuart

Grant Colson

Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart
2 How many parts does Shuggie Bain have?

Three

Four

Two

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?

Play

Short story

Epic poem

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?

England

Scotland

France

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?

Glasgow

London

Portsmouth

Aberdeen
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 cobbler's

A chemist's

A bakery

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

Fish

Dogs

Lambs

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

Bird Bakers

Brick Layers

Stone Eaters

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

Foreshadowing

Metonymy

Metaphor

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

A doctor's office

An apartment in New York

A supermarket

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

Results of football games

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

Welsh

Scouse

Glaswegian

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

Wine

Fizzy pop

Bottled water

Beer
16 Which answer best defines "wean"?

Old dog

Child

Umbrella

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

Have sex with him

Watch TV with him

Fix his radiator

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

1

20

15

32
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Shuggie

Agnes
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?

Present tense

Past tense

Future tense

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

1992

1993

1989

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?

His mother

His stepmother

His grandmother

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

Leech

Leek

Derek

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

Eugene

Roland

Howard

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

Catherine

Katy

Margaret

Liz

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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