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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of Chapter 2?

2. What was Edith Prior’s identity before she claimed that name?

3. What is Tobias’s last name in the novel?

4. Tris sees a billboard outside the city gates that advertises what brand of soda in Chapter 13?

5. What time does Tris say she set her watch alarm for in the opening of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the landscape outside the city walls described in Chapter 13?

2. Where does Nita take Tobias in Chapter 20? What information does she reveal?

3. What does Tobias reveal to Tris about Caleb’s sentencing in Chapter 9?

4. What does Matthew say about Nita’s plan in Chapter 26? What does he suggest they do?

5. What evidence does Nita produce to prove her points in Chapter 25?

6. What does Tris recall of the Dauntless training and job opportunities in Chapter 13?

7. What does Tobias face in his fear landscape in Chapter 10?

8. What were the effects of the genetic experiments that David describes in Chapter 15?

9. What objectives does Cara announce at the meeting of the Allegiant in Chapter 8?

10. Where are Tobias and the others taken in Chapter 14? What does Tobias think of the situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the “GP’s and GD’s” in the novel and the resistance movements against the Bureau of Genetic Welfare. How would you compare the bias against genetic impurity with racism or sexism in today’s world? What is the outcome for the resistance?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the character of Christina in the novel and discuss her history within the Divergent trilogy. Where did Christina and Tris first meet? How close is their friendship? What is the history of Will’s death and how does this affect their friendship?

Essay Topic 3

Define the term “Divergent” as it is used in the novel and discuss how it applies to both Tris and Tobias. How was Tris’s Divergent status first revealed? Who else in the novel appears to be Divergent? Are they?

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