Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Lin Yutang believes we owe a debt of gratitude to our parents for having raised us.
2. Jane English uses the "debt-metaphor" to advocate the idea that grown children owe a debt to their parents for raising them.
3. According to Jane English, there are appropriate ways of using the debt-metaphor, and applying it to favors between strangers is one of them.
4. For Jane English there are only duties when there are favors, but there are no duties or obligations between friends.
5. Fred Berger believes that in order to determine the amount of gratitude one ought to show, one must look at the giver's intentions.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. True

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