Does reading fiction make us more empathetic and compassionate?

( I need more opinions please, it's very important)

Read these lines from stanza 5 of the poem, “they shot wook kim” and answe the question. hung in the air/over that petroleum morgue that night. what does the use of the phrase “petroleum morgue” best suggest? an atmosphere of chemical detachment an unsettling place of ultimate rest a dark street containing a lifeless body an area containing putrid substances and smells

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

What is the main reason reverend thomas lane butts finds comfort in to kill a mocking bird?