Stuart : A Life Backwards

Question 1

Who is Stuart?

Answer 1

A thief, hostage taker, psycho and street raconteur

Question 2

Who is Alexander?

Answer 2

Stuart’s friend and writer of the text

Question 3

Who is Judith?

Answer 3

Stuart’s mother, real name Sonia

Question 4

Who is Karen?

Answer 4

Stuart’s sister, real name Zoe

Question 5

Who is Gavvy?

Answer 5

Stuart’s brother, real name Andrew

Question 6

Who is Rex?

Answer 6

Stuart’s father, real name Andrew

Question 7

Who is Sophie?

Answer 7

The mother of Stuart’s child

Question 8

Who is Ruth?

Answer 8

The director of the charity Wintercomfort, jailed for five years

Question 9

Who is John?

Answer 9

Manager of the charity Wintercomfort, hailed for four years

Question 10

Who is Linda?

Answer 10

Stuart’s outreach worker

Question 11

Who is Smithy?

Answer 11

Stuart’s criminal friend, the bubblegum king

Question 12

What is Stuart’s full name?

Answer 12

Stuart Clive Shorter

Question 13

When was Stuart born?

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

When did Stuart die?

Answer 14

2002

Question 15

What physical condition does Stuart suffer from?

Answer 15

Muscular Dystrophy

Question 16

What recipe does Stuart make Alexander on his second visit?

Answer 16

Convict curry

Question 17

What does Stuart call his son?

Answer 17

Littl’un

Question 18

What is Stuart’s unmentionable crime?

Answer 18

He threatened to kill his son

Question 19

How did Stuart’s brother die?

Answer 19

Suicide

Question 20

Along with his brother, who else sexually abused Stuart?

Answer 20

His babysitter

Question 21

What does Stuart call ‘bollocks boring’ on the very first page?

Answer 21

The manuscript

Question 22

At what age did Stuart first discover violence?

Answer 22

12

Question 23

What school did Stuart attend for disabled children?

Answer 23

Roger Ascham school

Question 24

What business did Stuart and smithy raid, leading to conviction?

Answer 24

A post office

Question 25

What does Stuart call ‘little strips of silver’?

Answer 25

Knives

Question 26

What mental condition has Stuart been diagnosed with?

Answer 26

Borderline personality disorder

Question 27

When was this book published?

Answer 27

2005

Question 28

What genre is the text?

Answer 28

Autobiography

Question 29

True or false - ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’ was Masters first published book

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Where did Masters first meet Stuart?

Answer 30

In a Cambridge doorway

Question 31

What was Masters’ job at Wintercomfort?

Answer 31

Fund-raising assistant

Question 32

In which year were Ruth and John convicted?

Answer 32

1998

Question 33

True or false - It was Masters’ idea to write the narrative backwards

Answer 33

False, it was Stuart’s

Question 34

Masters holds several degrees in which subject?

Answer 34

Mathematics

Question 35

How did Masters record the interviews with Stuart?

Answer 35

On cassette tapes

Question 36

True or false - Masters also interviewed members of Stuart’s family for the book

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Masters affectionately calls Stuart his friend …

Answer 37

Psycho

Question 38

Stuart tells Alexander he wants him to write the book like a …

Answer 38

Murder mystery

Question 39

Stuart and Alexander stage a sleep-out outside which building in London?

Answer 39

The home office

Question 40

Masters describes Stuart and belonging to what homeless group?

Answer 40

The chaotic homeless

Question 41

True or false - Masters believes that Stuart committed suicide when he was hit by a train

Answer 41

False