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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Connell believes that if anyone at school knew about his relationship with Marianne, they would view him as a what?
2. How old was Marianne when her father died?
3. In what month does Connell tell Marianne that he is taking Rachel to the Debs?
4. Connell tells Marianne for the first time that he loves her after she confides in him about what subject?
5. Connell's friends erupt with laughter when Eric suggests that who take Marianne to the Debs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What comment of Marianne's does Connell repeat to himself and why?
2. What comment does Marianne make about her appearance when she sees Connell for the first time since high school and how does he react?
3. What event brings Lorraine and Connell to the hospital in April of 2011?
4. How is the theme of self-deception demonstrated within the novel?
5. How is Connell's mother Lorraine employed?
6. What advice does Marianne give Connell about college?
7. What story is continually told about Marianne during her high school years?
8. What does Marianne say just before Connell kisses her for the first time?
9. How does Lorraine react to the news that Connell is taking Rachel to the Debs?
10. What is one theme present within the epigraph of Normal People?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why Rooney instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Normal People.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Normal People and analyze Rooney’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Rooney in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Normal People. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Rooney’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
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