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Chapter one
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
faction (pg. 1)
vanity (pg. 1)
selflessness (pg. 3)
placid (pg. 4)
antagonistic (pg. )
Chapter Questions
1. List the five factions. Use a dictionary to look up, and write, the definition of each
one.
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
inconvenience (pg. 8)
supersede (pg. 9)
Chapter Questions
1. Why would there be a rule that states the students cannot be tested by someone
from their own faction?
3. Do you think the five factions represent every basic personality type and fulfill all
the basic needs of people? If not, what faction(s) would you create to fill in any
gaps?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter three
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Do you agree that the most important thing in life is community? What would be
the alternative?
3. Which faction do you think you would have been born into, given your family and its
values? Which faction would you select at your Choosing Ceremony? Why?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter four
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
2. How is the city ruled? Why have they chosen to run the city this way?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. What does the quote “subsumed into Abnegation hive mind, projecting always out-
ward. (pg. 39)” mean?
2. Explain how each substance listed in the Choosing Ceremony represents each
faction.
3. Why is the society divided into factions? Do you agree with their reasoning?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
4. Why is Tris’ government run only by member of Abnegation? Do you think this is a
good idea?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter seven
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
3. Do you think it’s fair to rate the Dauntless-born and the transfers using the same
criteria? Why or why not?
4. What happens to Dauntless initiates who do not rank in the top 10? Why is the
bad?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter eight
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Four and Eric have different ideas about bravery (pg. 95). Which one do you agree
with? Why?
2. “Human reason can excuse any evil;…” (pg. 102) What does this quote mean?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Why would the city be locked from the outside? Why would they want to keep
people in?
2. In a game like Capture the Flag, is it better to have a strong team, or a fast one?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Why do you think Peter, Molly, and Drew dislike Tris so much?
2. Do you think Tris handled Molly appropriately, or should she have done something
different?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter fifteen and sixteen
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
2. Would it be brave for Tris to tell Eric who stabbed Edward? Why or why not?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. On pg. 217, Tris describes a “marsh, wide and brown and everywhere, touching the
horizon,…” What did this marsh used to be?
2. Why does Tris consider it braver for her trust people to catch her, rather than sliding
down the zip line?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
4. Which faction do you think should be in power? Think back to the definition of each
while making your decision.
Divergent chapter response
Chapter twenty-two, twenty-three,
and twenty-four
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Why would showing vulnerability make Drew, Peter and Al back off?
3. Abnegation and Dauntless have very different opinions regarding suicide. Outline
the different opinions and explain which one you agree with.
Divergent chapter response
Chapter twenty-five, twenty-six and
twenty-seven
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. How did Four get his name? What is his real name? Why is this significant?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
1. Why are Erudite faction members required to wear at least one blue article of cloth-
ing at a time?
4. What do Tris and Tobias figure out at the end of the chapter?
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
3. What four things has Tris figured out at the end of chapter 32?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter thirty-three, thirty-four,
and thirty-five
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
4. Tris’ mom says, “Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad
creeps back in and poisons us again” (pg. 441). Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Divergent chapter response
Chapter thirty-six - thirty-nine
Vocabulary
Word Definition:
Chapter Questions
4. At the beginning of the book, Tris does not understand what it means to be
Divergent. How do you think she would explain it by the end of the book?