Ancillary Justice Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Breq wonder about the the things she does sometimes? (from Chapters 1 – 5)

Because she is an ancillary, and has absolutely no free will of her own.

Because Breq is a drug addict, and an unreliable narrator.

Because she is not used to having free will and taking action without orders.

Because Breq has been programmed to think through each decision carefully, to the greater benefit of the Radchaai.

2.

What is the purpose of all of the Lord Radch's plotting and killing? (from Chapters 21 – 23 )

To demonstrate her power over Omaugh.

To establish her control over the Presger.

To find a way to root out the corrupt ancillaries.

To kill all human reformists in Omaugh.

3.

Why does Breq interrupt the narrative in Chapter 14 to directly address the reader? (from Chapters 11 – 15)

Because Breq wishes to explain what is past, and what is present.

Because someone has disrupted Breq's writing, so she must respond to this.

To speak about the thing she feels as well as thinks.

To speak about consciousness and "I."

4.

Why is Breq not bothered by the fact that people are kept as slaves by way of the ancillary system? (from Chapters 11 – 15)

Because Breq is no longer a slave herself.

Breq is very upset by slavery, and wants to completely destroy the entire Radch Empire because of its slaving.

Because ancillaries do not know they are slaves.

Because slavery, to Breq, is justifiable when it is for the greater good.

5.

Why has Vendaai had such difficulty adjusting to life in the present? (from Chapters 6 – 10)

Because he is a drug-addict, and drug-addicts cannot function well in the piloting of shuttles.

Because everything he has known is gone or has changed.

Because the Radch Empire has fallen.

Because the language and slang is vastly different now than it was a thousand years before.

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