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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Begbie punch June in Inner Shitty?
(a) She insults his mother.
(b) She is drunk.
(c) She is asking him too many questions.
(d) She threatens to phone the police.

2. Why does Davie bundle the bedding in Traditional English Breakfast?
(a) He plans to sell them.
(b) He wants to return them to the store.
(c) He brought them with him.
(d) He has soiled them.

3. Why are Temps and Tommy surprised during the row in Her Man?
(a) Ho one breaks it up.
(b) The rest of the pub joins in.
(c) The lowlife begins to cry.
(d) The abused woman attacks Tommy.

4. What does Renton promise Spud at the end of this chapter?
(a) They will always be best mates.
(b) He will pay Spud back the money he owes.
(c) They will go to London together.
(d) He won't let Spud do heroin again.

5. Where do Dianne and Renton go after leaving her parent's flat?
(a) A music store.
(b) A diner.
(c) Her school.
(d) His flat.

6. In It Goes Without Saying, who thinks the group should leave the flat?
(a) Matty.
(b) Sick Boy.
(c) Spud.
(d) Renton.

7. Why does Renton have to rummage through his own filth in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) He loses his suppositories.
(b) He loses his heroin stash.
(c) He loses a contact lens.
(d) He loses his keys.

8. Whose point-of-view is this chapter from?
(a) Begbie.
(b) Spud.
(c) It is in the third-person.
(d) Renton.

9. What is not among the alcoholic supplies that Begbie and Renton pick up for their trip?
(a) Rum.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Beer.
(d) Vodka.

10. Why does Uncle Boab's corpse sweat in Growing Up in Public?
(a) His fever is breaking after death.
(b) His electric blanket is still on.
(c) He has been on steroids for months.
(d) He is in the same room with a naked woman.

11. In Na Na and Other Nazis, how does Spud feel since coming off heroin?
(a) Uneasy.
(b) Energetic.
(c) Bored.
(d) Horny.

12. What does Dianne do immediately after she and Renton have sex in this chapter?
(a) Throw him out of the flat.
(b) Say she loves him.
(c) Tell him to sleep in the couch.
(d) Insist they do it again.

13. What information does Billy reveal about Jackie at the end of Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine?
(a) He is sleeping with Fiona.
(b) He has cleared his bank account.
(c) He is not from Leith.
(d) He is the executor of Granty's estate.

14. What is different about the narrative voice in Growing Up in Public from previous chapters?
(a) It is in Spanish.
(b) It is Sick Boy's point-of-view.
(c) It is in the third person.
(d) It is in present tense.

15. From whose point-of-view is Inner Shitty?
(a) Stevie.
(b) Renton.
(c) Begbie.
(d) June.

Short Answer Questions

1. In It Goes Without Saying, who does Renton figure out is Dawn's father?

2. At the beginning of The Skag Boys, What does Mark Renton want to do instead of get high with Sick Boy?

3. Who tries to take the bedding away from Davie in Traditional English Breakfast?

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

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

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