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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSIn a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior has grown up in Abnegation, the faction that values selflessness above everything else, but she has always felt like she doesn't quite fit. When her aptitude test returns a baffling, inconclusive result that her administrator warns her to keep secret, Beatrice must still make the most important choice of her life at the annual Choosing Ceremony: stay in the faction she was born into, or transfer to one of the other four factions and leave her family behind forever. The decision she makes sets her on a path full of physical trials, dangerous secrets, and the growing realization that her city's carefully ordered society is not what it seems.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Divergent
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Divergent. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book do sixteen-year-olds take an aptitude test that sorts them into one of five groups?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The aptitude test uses a simulation to tell each teenager which faction they best fit. Beatrice takes hers after lunch on a stressful day, and the result will shape the rest of her life at the Choosing Ceremony the next morning.
- First half
In what book does a feared instructor admit that he is secretly afraid of heights?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
While climbing the giant wheel, Four confesses to Tris that high places terrify him and he simply pretends the fear is not there. The moment shows her that real bravery means acting in spite of fear.
- First half
In what book is a boy ordered to stand still while knives are thrown near his head?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
When Al refuses to fetch a fallen blade, Eric punishes him by making him stand against the target as a human bullseye. Tris speaks up against the cruelty and ends up taking his place.
- Second half
In what book do three attackers blindfold a girl and dangle her over rushing water?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Peter, Drew, and Al grab Tris at night, blindfold her, and hold her over the chasm to scare or kill her. Four hears her scream and beats the boys off before she can fall.
- Second half
In what book does a girl lie that she chose her faction because she was bored?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
To convince Jeanine she is ordinary, Tris pretends she abandoned her family because she was tired of being a do-gooder. The lie burns her throat because she actually loves her parents.
- Near the end
In what book does an entire faction march like sleepwalkers to pick up guns?
✓ Answer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Tris wakes to find every initiate dressing and moving in unison with blank eyes, controlled by the injected transmitters. She fakes the trance and follows them as they arm themselves to attack Abnegation.
