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

1. The story of the Golem figure teaches a lesson of keeping a moral perspective in our undertakings.
2. The Pygmalion story type is a warning against unscrupulous creativity: You may be creating a monster.
3. In the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, Werther kills his beloved Lotte because she has broken up with him.
4. Plato claimed that art is harmful because it inspired violent emotions.
5. Aristotle's idea of catharsis meant that we should purge all sex and violence from art.


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

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