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?
Three

Five

Four

Two
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Short story

Play

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

Scotland

England

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Glasgow

Portsmouth

Aberdeen

London
6 In what year does the story begin?
1990

2001

1980

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Shuggie

Big Shug

Leek
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

Lambs

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?
Metonymy

Metaphor

Foreshadowing

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

An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house

A doctor's office
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Consumer spending reports

Chess openings

Results of cricket matches

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

Scouse

Welsh

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

Fizzy pop

Wine

Beer
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?
Watch TV with him

Burn down the boarding house

Have sex with him

Fix his radiator
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
20

32

1

15
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Agnes

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Shuggie
20 In what tense is Shuggie Bain narrated?
Past tense

It is unclear

Future tense

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

1989

1993

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His grandmother

His mother

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

Leech

Lean

Derek
24 What is Shuggie's father's name?
Big Shug

Eugene

Roland

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

Katy

Liz

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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