diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index 20bb6ff3d..63a6f7fa9 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -305,10 +305,8 @@ Executable test-pandoc
     Extensions:       CPP
     Build-Depends:    base >= 4 && < 5, Diff, test-framework >= 0.3 && < 0.4,
                       test-framework-hunit >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
-                      test-framework-quickcheck2 >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
-                      HUnit >= 1.2 && < 1.3, QuickCheck >= 2.3 && < 2.5
+                      HUnit >= 1.2 && < 1.3
     Other-Modules:    Tests.Old
                       Tests.Helpers
                       Tests.Arbitrary
-                      Tests.Shared
                       Tests.Readers.LaTeX
diff --git a/tests/Tests/Shared.hs b/tests/Tests/Shared.hs
deleted file mode 100644
index c7222c035..000000000
--- a/tests/Tests/Shared.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-module Tests.Shared (tests) where
-import Test.Framework.Providers.QuickCheck2
-import Test.Framework
-import Tests.Arbitrary
-import Text.Pandoc.Shared
-import Text.Pandoc
-
-normalize_rt :: Pandoc -> Bool
-normalize_rt d = normalize (normalize d) == normalize d
-
-tests :: [Test]
-tests = [ testProperty "normalize_rt" normalize_rt ]
-
diff --git a/tests/test-pandoc.hs b/tests/test-pandoc.hs
index 9f3d65300..316060c83 100644
--- a/tests/test-pandoc.hs
+++ b/tests/test-pandoc.hs
@@ -6,14 +6,12 @@ import Test.Framework
 
 import qualified Tests.Old
 import qualified Tests.Readers.LaTeX
-import qualified Tests.Shared
 
 tests :: [Test]
 tests = [ testGroup "Old" Tests.Old.tests
         , testGroup "Readers"
           [ testGroup "LaTeX" Tests.Readers.LaTeX.tests
           ]
-        , testGroup "Shared" Tests.Shared.tests
         ]
 
 main :: IO ()