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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Exile: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Feeling Free, The Elusive Mr. Hunt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Renton have to convince a pub owner of to use a toilet in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) He is a Hibs fan.
(b) He is not going to do drugs.
(c) He is not a tourist.
(d) He is not with the health board.

2. At the beginning of Courting Disaster, Renton and Spud have been arrested stealing what?
(a) Toasters.
(b) Books.
(c) Records.
(d) Prime rib.

3. Why is Renton mortified by his mother in Courting Disaster?
(a) She tells stories of his babyhood.
(b) She gets incredibly drunk.
(c) She insists he drink only soda.
(d) She keeps crying.

4. How does Renton describe his brother in the wake?
(a) He does not speak.
(b) In safe anecdotes.
(c) With brutal honesty.
(d) With a series of cliches.

5. What practical joke does Begbie play on Renton in Inner Shitty?
(a) He tells the girls by them that Renton is gay.
(b) He draws on Renton's face while he's passed out.
(c) He urinates in Renton's beer.
(d) He punches Renton in the testicles as he goes to the toilet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Billy and Mark most often fight over?

2. What is Gi doing to Renton when the latter wakes up in London crying?

3. Why can Davie not remember where he is at the beginning of Traditional English Breakfast?

4. Who in Renton's family does Spud see at the pub in Na Na and Other Nazis?

5. How does the group in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine accumulate its communal pot?

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