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

1. Christina Hoff Sommers believes that the proper way to teach values is to focus on Christian values of obedience and sexual abstinence.
2. Christina Hoff Sommers wants to teach students that values are not merely a matter of taste.
3. Christina Hoff Sommers believes that moral problems such as pollution, homelessness, or the loneliness of elderly people must be solved by the state and not the individual.
4. Søren Kierkegaard's father believed there was a curse on the family because he, as a child, had stepped on a loaf of bread to get across a mud puddle.
5. Within the Lutheran tradition there is no confession and no absolution of sins by the clergy.


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

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