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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Kicking Again: Inner Shitty, Na Na and Other Nazis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What substance are Mike Forester and his mates sharing in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) Oxycontin.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Speed.
(d) Heroin.

2. What playwright does Renton talk to the English girls in In Overdrive about?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Ibsen.

3. Why is Begbie disappointed in A Disappointed?
(a) He cannot start a fight.
(b) He leaves a pub as a brawl begins.
(c) He loses a fight.
(d) He misses a pub brawl.

4. How is Spud related to Dode?
(a) Dode is his brother.
(b) Dode is his uncle.
(c) Dode is his grandfather.
(d) Dode is his cousin.

5. In The Glass, Renton expresses disgust at what group?
(a) Skinheads.
(b) Pensioners.
(c) Asians.
(d) The Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Nina that she is unprepared for in Growing Up in Public?

2. At the end of In Overdrive, Sick Boy has a creed against what?

3. What does Renton reflect on at the end of Junk Dilemma No. 63?

4. How does Tommy react to the row at the nearby table in Her Man?

5. What sadistic thing does Swan do in The Skag Boys?

(see the answer key)

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