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?
Two

Three

Five

Four
3 What form does Shuggie Bain take?
Novel

Play

Short story

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

England

Scotland

Ireland
5 In what city is Shuggie Bain set?
Aberdeen

London

Portsmouth

Glasgow
6 In what year does the story begin?
2001

1992

1990

1980
7 Who is the protagonist?
Agnes

Big Shug

Shuggie

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

A grocery store

A bakery

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

Fish

Lambs

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

Stone Eaters

Kilfeathers

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

Metaphor

Foreshadowing

Metonymy
12 Where does Shuggie live in the first part of the novel?
An apartment in New York

A bedsit in a boarding house

A doctor's office

A supermarket
13 What does Shuggie try to memorize to appear more masculine when he is sixteen?
Results of cricket matches

Chess openings

Consumer spending reports

Results of football games
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?
Fizzy pop

Beer

Wine

Bottled water
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?
Fix his radiator

Have sex with him

Burn down the boarding house

Watch TV with him
18 How many chapters does the book contain?
32

15

20

1
19 Who narrates Shuggie Bain?
Shuggie

An unnamed first-person narrator

Agnes

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

Future tense

It is unclear

Present tense
21 In what year does the second part of the novel take place?
1981

1989

1992

1993
22 Who is Agnes Bain to Shuggie?
His sister

His stepmother

His grandmother

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

Leek

Lean

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

Eugene

Howard

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

Catherine

Liz

Margaret

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

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