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1. A. By dramatizing the horrific consequences of allowing climate change to continue unchecked, Atwood urges readers to take the issue seriously and to take action while there is still time.
2. B. Atwood describes how people transfer their faith in gods to an irrational faith that money will make them powerful and happy, leading to the destruction of the planet.
3. D. While Atwood is a feminist writer, this text is about humanity’s treatment of the planet and its justification of that treatment, including how it weaponizes religion to pursue greed, resulting in the destruction of the environment.
4. B. Greed and hunger are the two situations that money creates when wealth is not shared equitably. Some people have a lot of money and spend their lives pursuing more of it, while others do not have enough to eat.
5. C. Midway through the text, Atwood writes, “In the third age, money became a god.” This becomes a theme for the next section of the text.
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