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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marianne's last name?
(a) Sheridan.
(b) Miller.
(c) Gladwell.
(d) Thomas.

2. What is the only place Marianne has ever lived?
(a) Carricklea.
(b) Trinity.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Galway.

3. For whose family does Connell's mother work?
(a) Laura's.
(b) Violet's.
(c) Marianne's.
(d) Mary's.

4. Which of Marianne's features causes Connell respiratory distress every time he thinks of them?
(a) Her ankles.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Her lips.
(d) Her hips.

5. Rooney uses a simile involving what object to describe Marianne's posture after Connell's post-kiss departure?
(a) A knife.
(b) A marionette.
(c) A matchstick.
(d) A rag doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. Connell will remain connected to his current social group if he chooses a college in what location?

2. The fundraising dance is held at the only what in town?

3. Connell sees which characteristic of Marianne's as one he does not share?

4. What is Rachel's last name?

5. What does Marianne say just before Connell kisses her for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lorraine react to the news that Connell is taking Rachel to the Debs?

2. What is one theme present within the epigraph of Normal People?

3. What story is continually told about Marianne during her high school years?

4. What is the significance of Connell's interpretation of the story circulated about Marianne?

5. When the reader joins Connell in the fall of his first year of college, to what changes has he had to adapt?

6. What plan had Connell had in place for when he encountered Marianne again and what is its result?

7. What advice does Marianne give Connell about college?

8. What are the physical differences between Lorraine and Connell?

9. What does Connell know about his biological father and why?

10. What does Marianne say just before Connell kisses her for the first time?

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