Shuggie Bain Quizzes

Shuggie Bain Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Shuggie Bain?
Douglas Stuart

Hugh Bain

McClelland Stuart

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

Three

Four

Five
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Epic poem

Play

Short story

Novel
4 In what country is Shuggie Bain set?
Scotland

Ireland

France

England
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
London

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Portsmouth
6 In what year does the story begin?
1980

1990

2001

1992
7 Who is the protagonist?
Big Shug

Leek

Shuggie

Agnes
8 Where does Shuggie work at the beginning of the novel?
A grocery store

A bakery

A cobbler's

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

Chickens

Dogs

Fish
10 What is the name of Shuggie's workplace?
Kilfeathers

Brick Layers

Bird Bakers

Stone Eaters
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

A bedsit in a boarding house

An apartment in New York

A doctor's office
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

Scouse

Welsh

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

Fizzy pop

Beer

Bottled water
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?
Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him

Have sex with him

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

15

1

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

Shuggie

An unnamed third-person narrator

Agnes
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

1989

1981
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His grandmother

His stepmother

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

Lean

Derek

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

Big Shug

Howard

Eugene
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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