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Irish author Sally Rooney, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Alamy Stock Photo
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Quiz: How much do you know about Sally Rooney?
The Irish author’s latest novel, Intermezzo, is released on Tuesday.
IRISH AUTHOR SALLY Rooney’s latest and heavily anticipated new novel Intermezzo is due for release on Tuesday.
Known for her best-selling novel Normal People, the author’s latest enterprise marks her fourth novel. Rooney’s Intermezzo deals with two brothers living in Dublin, one a chess player and the other working as a lawyer, and their romantic entanglements as they deal with the grief of losing their father.
Ahead of its release, we’re here to quiz you: How much do you know about Sally Rooney?
Sally Rooney, like her characters Marianne and Connell in Normal People, attended which Irish university?
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University College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin City University
Technological University Dublin
Rooney's novels are all based in Dublin - but which county is she from originally?
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Mayo
Sligo
Tipperary
Wicklow
Rooney's debut novel Conversations With Friends shows two young women, Frances and Bobbi, become involved with an older couple. What are the names of the couple?
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Alice and Felix
Maria and John
Sheila and Micheál
Melissa and Nick
At age 22, Rooney earned the title of Europe's Top Competitive...?
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Gymnast
Ballerina
Debater
Chess player
Chapters in her novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, are broken up by which?
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Original poems
Emails
Diary entries
Illustrations
Which political philosophy has Rooney outspokenly identified herself as aligning with?
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Capitalism
Communism
Marxism
Socialism
Which Irish actor portrays her character Connell in the BBC adaptation of Normal People?
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Éanna Hardwicke
Barry Keoghan
Robert Sheehan
Paul Mescal
Which medical condition does Frances suffer with in Conversations with Friends?
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Endometriosis
Crohn's Disease
Epilepsy
Haemophilia
True or False: Connell asks Marianne to the debs.
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True
False
Where does Rooney now reside?
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Mayo
London
New York
Dublin
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You scored out of !
Normal People
Congratulations - you're Sally Rooney's best-selling novel!
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Conversations With Friends
Rooney's award winning debut, but not her best received work.
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You scored out of !
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Like the protagonists in this novel, you're slightly lost.
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You scored out of !
Intermezzo
You, like Intermezzo, have yet to be released into the Sally Rooney universe.
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