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This Divergent trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers the whole series, from Beatrice Prior's aptitude test to the last pages of Allegiant and the film that never got made. There are questions about the five factions and their virtues, Dauntless initiation, Four's fear landscape, Jeanine Matthews and the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, plus the short-story collection told from Tobias's point of view. The movies get equal time: Shailene Woodley and Theo James, the supporting cast, the directors, budgets, box office and why Ascendant was scrapped. There is also some Veronica Roth backstory, including how a debut novel written over winter break became a 35-million-copy franchise. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer was verified against the source material, so this is safe territory for book club and movie night arguments alike.
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Q 01Who wrote the Divergent trilogy?
Veronica Roth
Roth wrote the first book over winter break in her senior year at Northwestern and sold the film rights before it was even printed. The trilogy has sold more than 35 million copies.
Q 02In which post-apocalyptic city is Divergent set?
Chicago
Roth said she did not plan the setting; she looked at her draft's constant trains, lake marsh and rivers and realised she had written the city she knew best.
Q 03How many factions divide society in Divergent?
Five
Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite, plus the outcast Factionless who failed initiation or left.
Q 04Which faction is reserved for the honest?
Candor
Candor members are raised to tell the truth bluntly, and their headquarters is where the Dauntless regroup and submit to truth serum in Insurgent.
Q 05Beatrice's aptitude test shows equal aptitude for how many factions, marking her as Divergent?
Three
Her results point to Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. The tester Tori records only one and warns her never to reveal the truth.
Q 06Which faction does Beatrice's brother Caleb choose, shocking his family?
Erudite
He goes on to betray Tris in later books, working for the very faction leader who orders the attack on their parents.
Q 07What name does Beatrice give herself after jumping into the net at Dauntless headquarters?
Tris
She is the first initiate to leap from the roof into the dark hole. Her instructor Four is the one who asks her name.
Q 08What does Tris's instructor's numeric nickname refer to?
The number of his fears
Tris discovers it when he shows her his fear landscape. In his final fear she also learns his real name and the truth about his abusive father.
Q 09What is Four's real first name?
Tobias
He is the son of Marcus Eaton, the Abnegation leader accused of abusing him. The rumors turn out to be true.
Q 10Which faction leader masterminds the simulation attack on Abnegation?
Jeanine Matthews
She injects Four with an experimental serum that overrides his Divergence and makes him see friends as enemies, then sends him to run the attack from the control room.
Q 11How are the Dauntless soldiers controlled during the attack on Abnegation?
By a serum they were told was for tracking
Tris wakes to find her friends moving in unison in a sleepwalking state. Being Divergent, she and Four are unaffected.
Q 12Which friend is Tris forced to kill in self-defense during the attack?
Will
He is under the simulation and does not know her. Christina, his girlfriend, learns the truth in Insurgent under truth serum.
Q 13Which fellow initiate is suspected of stabbing the top-ranked Edward in the eye?
Peter
Edward leaves to become Factionless with his girlfriend Myra, and the culprit takes his place at the top of the rankings.
Q 21Who is Evelyn Johnson-Eaton?
Four's mother, who leads the Factionless
Presumed dead, she wants her son to bring Dauntless into an alliance against Erudite. In Allegiant she becomes the city's leader.
Q 22What is the society's motto about lifetime allegiance?
Faction before blood
Factions are meant to be a lifetime allegiance that outranks family, which is why Tris and Caleb's departures devastate their parents.
Q 23Allegiant is narrated from the alternating perspectives of Tris and which other character?
Four
Q 14How does Tris rank at the end of Dauntless initiation?
First
She had finished sixth after the physical first stage; her Divergent ability to manipulate the fear simulations carried her to the top.
Q 15What is the fate of the initiates who fail Dauntless initiation?
They become Factionless
Four tells the transfers only the top ten will stay. The Factionless live as outcasts doing menial work, and become a political force in Insurgent.
Q 16Which publisher released Divergent in 2011?
HarperCollins
It came out through HarperCollins Children's Books, a little over a year after Roth graduated. The sequels followed in 2012 and 2013.
Q 17At which school was the author studying creative writing when she wrote Divergent?
Northwestern
She spent a year at Carleton College before transferring. Publishing rights sold before she graduated in 2010.
Q 18Roth originally started writing the series from whose point of view before switching to Beatrice?
Four's
She later returned to that voice for Four: A Divergent Collection, a set of five prequel-style short stories.
Q 19How many short stories make up Four: A Divergent Collection?
Five
They are The Transfer, The Initiate, The Son, The Traitor and Free Four, which retells the knife-throwing scene. The collected edition arrived in July 2014.
Q 20In Insurgent, Tris and Four first take refuge with which faction?
Amity
There Tris overhears Marcus and Amity leader Johanna Reyes discussing the secret the Abnegation leaders died to protect.
It was the first book in the trilogy to leave Tris's sole viewpoint, a choice that became crucial for the way the story ends.
Q 24What organization do Tris and her friends discover beyond the city's fence in Allegiant?
The Bureau of Genetic Welfare
Its leader David reveals the city was an experiment after genetic tampering sparked the Purity Wars. Tris learns the Bureau supplied Erudite with the simulation serums.
Q 25In Allegiant, Tris takes over what suicide mission from her brother Caleb?
Exposing the memory serum
She survives the death serum in the lab but is shot by David. The ending drew a strong reaction from many readers.
Q 26Who plays Tris in the Divergent films?
Shailene Woodley
Her casting was announced in October 2012. The same year the first film came out she starred in The Fault in Our Stars opposite her Divergent co-star Ansel Elgort.
Q 27Which British actor plays Four?
Theo James
He was cast in March 2013 and it became his breakthrough role; he later led The Gentlemen and The White Lotus's second season.
Q 28Which Oscar winner plays the villain behind the attack on Abnegation in the films?
Kate Winslet
She was announced to be in talks in January 2013 and was pregnant during filming, which the crew hid with props and framing.
Q 29Who directed the first Divergent film?
Neil Burger
Burger, known for Limitless, was announced in August 2012. He stayed on as executive producer when Schwentke took over the sequels.
Q 30Which future Whiplash star plays Peter in the films?
Miles Teller
He was cast on the same day Theo James was announced as Four. Ansel Elgort plays Caleb and Jai Courtney plays Eric.