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50 free Insurgent trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Insurgent picks up barely an hour after Divergent ends, and it never slows down. Tris is a fugitive carrying a guilt she cannot speak aloud, the factions she grew up with are turning on one another, and every refuge she reaches comes with a price. It is the book where the series stops being about one girl's initiation and becomes a war over who gets to know what. This quiz follows the novel from the first refuge to the last revelation: the uneasy welcome among the farmers, the trial where secrets come out, the raid, the rooftop, the cell in enemy headquarters and the alliance that is not what it seems. A final handful of questions covers the author, the book's place in the trilogy and the film adaptation. It is written for readers who have just finished the book, for students revising it for class, and for film fans who want to see how much of the story stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play on screen or print the questions for a classroom or book-club quiz.
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Q 01Who secretly swaps the death serum for a paralytic so that Tris survives her execution in Insurgent?
Peter
Peter fakes her death to clear a debt: Tris had shoved him out of a bullet's path at Amity, and he could not stand owing her anything.
Q 02Who kills Jeanine Matthews in the novel Insurgent, avenging a brother believed murdered for being Divergent?
Tori
Tori stabs Jeanine even as Tris begs her to wait, because only Jeanine could find the stolen Abnegation file. The film hands the killing to someone else.
Q 03Whom is Tris shocked to find working for Jeanine when she is locked up at Erudite in Insurgent?
Caleb
Caleb never truly left Erudite: he had been advising Jeanine on how best to manipulate his own sister, and had passed on her aptitude test results.
Q 04Which secret does Tris confess at her Candor trial in Insurgent, devastating her friend Christina?
She shot Will
She shot Will, Christina's boyfriend, while a simulation controlled him during the attack on Abnegation. Tris had hidden it from everyone, Tobias included.
Q 05Which woman, long believed dead by Abnegation, turns out to be leading the factionless in Insurgent?
Evelyn
Evelyn is Tobias's mother, whose death had been faked after she left Abnegation. She wants her son to bring the Dauntless into an alliance against Erudite.
Q 06How does a grieving Tris change her appearance while sheltering at Amity early in Insurgent?
She cuts her hair
She cuts her hair because, with her mother dead and everything changed, Tris feels she can no longer look the same.
Q 07What do the Amity inject into Tris after she fights in Insurgent, leaving her giddy and euphoric?
Peace serum
Peace serum is how Amity keeps the calm, and Tris is given too much of it. Later she wonders why she could not fight it off as she does the other serums.
Q 08Insurgent is set in the fenced-off ruins of which American city, where a great lake has become a marsh?
Chicago
Chicago survives in pieces: the Dauntless zip-line from the Hancock building, and Candor has taken over the old Merchandise Mart.
Q 09Which captured traitor asks Tobias to be his executioner in Insurgent, hoping to burden him with guilt?
Eric
Eric had led the raid on Candor and killed a Divergent child there. Tobias tells him he feels no guilt at all, then pulls the trigger.
Q 10Which author, who began the series as a student at Northwestern University, wrote the novel Insurgent?
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth drafted the first book over a winter break in her senior year, and its rights sold before she graduated. Insurgent followed a year later.
Q 11What do the Candor use on Tris and Tobias in Insurgent to make their trial testimony impossible to fake?
Truth serum
Truth serum drags out what each most wants to hide: Tobias admits he regrets ever joining Dauntless and had planned to leave and live factionless.
Q 12What reason does Tobias give at his Candor trial in Insurgent for having left Abnegation for Dauntless?
To escape his father
To escape his father is the confession that costs him: some Dauntless mock it as cowardice, and Tobias later beats Marcus in front of them to prove otherwise.
Q 13Which Dauntless-born friend proves to be Divergent by staying awake through the raid on Candor in Insurgent?
Uriah
Q 21Which traitor relays Jeanine's words through an earpiece at a meeting with Candor's leader in Insurgent?
Max
Max tells the Candor leader that his faction is expendable, in phrases Tris recognizes as Jeanine's own. Moments later one of the eavesdropping Dauntless shoots him in the chest.
Q 22Which Dauntless fighter who distrusts the Divergent is paralyzed by a gunshot in Insurgent?
Shauna
Shauna is hit in the back and may never walk again. Tris insists that a Dauntless in a wheelchair is a Dauntless all the same.
Q 23Which Erudite woman changes sides to warn the loyal Dauntless during the Candor raid in Insurgent?
Cara
Cara slips upstairs past her own side to evacuate the loyal Dauntless, who then ambush the traitors in the lobby. Later she nudges Christina towards forgiving Tris.
Uriah had told nobody, and afterwards he asks Tris to keep his secret. The raid's smoke knocks out everyone except the Divergent, so the two find each other out.
Q 14How do Tris and Tobias get away when Dauntless traitors chase them through Amity's fields in Insurgent?
By jumping a train
By jumping a train, the Dauntless way to travel, they land in a car full of factionless who nearly throw them off until Tobias gives his real name.
Q 15What does Tris smash at Amity in Insurgent so that Erudite can never recover the simulation data?
A hard drive
A hard drive from the Dauntless control room held the attack's data, and also the only footage Tris has left of her parents. She destroys it anyway.
Q 16Which former initiate, who lost an eye to a butter knife, reappears among the factionless in Insurgent?
Edward
Edward left Dauntless after the attack that cost him an eye. Among the factionless he has grown so violent that his girlfriend, Myra, ended things with him.
Q 17Which virtue is prized above all by the faction that dresses in black and white in Insurgent?
Honesty
Honesty is Candor's creed: black and white stand for the belief that a thing is either so or it is not. Their headquarters is nicknamed the Merciless Mart.
Q 18Which friend of Tris walks off a rooftop under simulation in Insurgent, delivering Jeanine's ultimatum?
Marlene
Marlene recites the threat first: more deaths every two days until a Divergent is handed over. Tris and Christina pull two others back from the edge but cannot reach her.
Q 19What must the refugees give up in Insurgent before the Amity vote lets them stay at the compound?
Their weapons
Their weapons have to go, and all conflict with them. Tris keeps a gun hidden under her mattress anyway, sure that she is no good at staying out of fights.
Q 20Which detail, glimpsed by a traitor at Amity, starts the fight that forces Tobias to flee in Insurgent?
His tattoo
His tattoo ends the disguise: Tobias had dressed as Amity, but he stood too proudly to pass for anything but Dauntless and was already being questioned.
Q 24What do the needle-tipped discs fired at Candor headquarters in Insurgent turn out to plant under the skin?
Simulation transmitters
Simulation transmitters are Tris's theory, and she is right: anyone hit stays open to one simulation after another. She spends the night pulling the needles out of arms.
Q 25What do the loyal Dauntless use against the hidden cameras when they retake their own headquarters in Insurgent?
Paintball guns
Paintball guns, handed out by an older Dauntless named Bud, blind most of Erudite's surveillance. The lenses they miss prove deadly.
Q 26What does Jeanine force Tobias to reveal about the factionless by tormenting Tris in Insurgent?
Their safe houses
Their safe houses go onto Jeanine's map once Tobias can no longer bear to watch. He had walked into Erudite on purpose, to scout its two central control rooms.
Q 27Jeanine's brain scans in Insurgent link Tris's adaptable personality to an abundance of which cells?
Mirror neurons
Mirror neurons, Jeanine concludes, let a mind mimic whoever the moment calls for. The scans also show that Tris is driven by her goals, not by rewards.
Q 28Which Candor leader agrees to hand the Divergent to Jeanine in Insurgent, prompting a Dauntless walkout?
Jack Kang
Jack Kang hopes to buy his faction safety, having been told to his face that Candor is expendable. The Dauntless answer by electing new leaders and going home.
Q 29How do Tris and Tobias get out of Erudite headquarters after her staged execution in Insurgent?
Down a trash chute
Down a trash chute they go, and then they hide in the nearest building, reasoning that staying put is the last move Erudite logic would predict.
Q 30What does Tris carry into Erudite headquarters in Insurgent because she cannot bring herself to hold a gun?
A stunner
A stunner built by an Erudite defector lets its user drop an opponent without shooting. Since the attack on Abnegation, Tris has shrunk from carrying a gun.