1. Why did Beatrice have to take a test? Why is Beatrice a “divergent”?
PART ONE
In what ways is the city of Chicago in the film different from today’s Chicago?
What are the properties of the five factions called ABNEGATION, AMITY, CANDOR, DAUNTLESS and ERUDITE?
Why did Beatrice have to take a test?
Why is Beatrice a “divergent”?
What does the motto “Faction before blood” mean?
What faction did Beatrice and Caleb choose?
Who is Eric?
What did the dauntless initiates have to do for their first test?
What new name did Beatrice choose for herself?

2. How long is the training to become a Dauntless going to take?
PART ONE
Who is Four?
What is The Pit?
How long is the training to become a Dauntless going to take?
Why is ranking important during the training sessions?

3. What happens to those initiates who rank last?
PART TWO
What happens to those initiates who rank last?
What kind of life do the Factionless lead?
How did Tris perform during the fighting match?
How did the woman who made the tattoo for Tris know that Tris is a divergent?
According to Marcus Eaton, what is the main mission of the Dautless?
What is the function of the fence around the city of Chicago?
Why did Four deliberately miss Tris with the knives?
Who helped Tris get out of the infirmary and join the others on the train?

4. Why did Tris climb on the Ferris wheel?
PART TWO
What were the properties of the guns used by the initiates in the game Capture the Flag?
Why did Tris climb on the Ferris wheel?
How did Tris manage to win the game?
How did Tris manage to remain an initiate with the Dautless?
What warning did Tris’s mother tell her daughter?
Why did Four inject a serum in Tris’s body?

5. What surprised Four with the way Tris fought her fears?
PART THREE
What fears could Four see inside Tris’s mind after injecting her with the serum?
What surprised Four with the way Tris fought her fears?
What trick did Tris use in order to brake the glass of the water tank?
Why was the Dauntless leadership a potential danger for Tris?
Why did Tris want to talk to her brother Caleb?
Who is Janine Matthews?
Why did Al and two other initiates attempt to kill Tris?
Why did Four save Tris’s life?
Why was Tris worried about her parents?

6. What did Four want to teach Tris by taking her inside his own fears?
PART THREE
What happened to Al?
What did Four want to teach Tris by taking her inside his own fears?
Why did the Erudite faction bring large amount of supplies, including a kind of cognitive transmitter, to Dauntless?
How did Erudite plan to turn Dauntless into an army?

7. What was different in Tris’s fears during her last test?
PART FOUR
What was different in Tris’s fears during her last test?
What did Triss have to during her final test?
Why did the Dauntless receive a tracking device?
Why did Tris and Four behave differently from the other Abnegation?
Why did Jeanine Matthews think it was important to destroy Factionless?
Who saved Tris’s life when a guard was about to shoot her?
What happened to Tris’s mother?
Why did Tris want to go to Dauntless?
How did Tris’s father die?

8. Why did Four try to kill Tris?
PART FOUR
Why did Four try to kill Tris?
Why did Tris inject Jeanine Matthews with the serum?
In what ways is the faction system similar to a dictatorship?

9. Shailene Woodley as Beatrice "Tris" Prior Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior
Shailene Woodley as Beatrice "Tris" Prior Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior Theo James as Tobias "Four" Eaton
Ray Stevenson as Marcus Eaton Ashley Judd as Natalie Prior Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews

10. Shailene Woodley as Beatrice "Tris" Prior
Shailene Woodley as Beatrice "Tris" Prior. She lives in a futuristic Chicago, the survivors of a mysterious war live in the remains of the city, now enclosed by a large wall. The totalitarian society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent). Tris takes her test and her results show that she is Divergent. Tori records her result as Abnegation and warns her to keep the true result a secret, telling her that since Divergents can think independently and the government therefore cannot control them, they are considered threats to the existing social order.

11. Tris initially struggles in Dauntless training with low ranking, but slowly improves. Tris‘s divergence allows her to excel at the tests, defeating them in unusual ways, but Four warns her to hide her abilities. One day The Dauntlesses are injected with a serum supplied by Erudite, which is actually a mind control serum but Tris and Four remain unaffected like all Divergents. She manages to enter the central control room and uses the serum on Jeanine Matthews to force her to cancel her program. The group escapes the compound and boards a train, leaving the city.

12. Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior. Tris’s brother. He chooses to join Erudite.
Ashley Judd as Natalie Prior. Tris’s mother. She gets killed by a group of Dauntless.
Theo James as Tobias "Four" Eaton. He’s the instructor for the Dauntless initiates and he’s also a divergent.
Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews. Erudite leader Jeanine who planned to have the Dauntless army execute the entire Abnegation faction.