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It's just an aptitude test to decide what you'll do for the rest of your life. For example, you see an angry dog and a small child. You can either move to protect the child, or you can fight the dog. If you protect the child, then you belong in abnegation (social worker), but if you fight the dog, then you belong

I read this and Hunger Games, and they both remind me of the cheap sci-fi paperbacks that I read when I was younger. Quick, inoffensive entertainment, and there's nothing wrong with that.
One nit that I would pick is that the nature of what makes the protagonist "divergent" is sort of disappointing and I don't think