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Identify the fallacy:

Betty threw up after she ate my chicken casserole, so it must have made her sick.

• Hasty generalization

• False alternative

• Post hoc

• Accident

Identify the fallacy:

We aren't having spaghetti for dinner, so we must be having pork chops.

• Hasty generalization

• False alternative

• Post hoc

• Accident

Identify the fallacy:

Most people who follow the Hindu religion live in India, so Mother Theresa, a Catholic nun who lived in India, was a Hindu.

• Hasty generalization

• Post hoc

• False alternative

• Accident

Identify the fallacy:

If we allow you to practice on our piano, then we will have to let everyone else practice on our piano and won’t have time to manage our other responsibilities, which means we would have to sell the piano. So we can’t let you practice on it.

• Slippery slope

• Hasty generalization

• False alternative

• Post hoc