Prof. Sims's Logical Fallacy Quiz Game
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English
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University
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Hard
+6
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Deborah Sims
Used 12+ times
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20 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
You can’t believe Jack when he says the proposed policy would help the economy. He doesn’t even have a job.
Ad hominem
Band wagon
False dichotomy
Red herring
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong.
Begging the question
Slippery slope
Bandwagon
Ad hominem
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.8
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.8
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Technology’s advancing too fast. First iPhones, then brain chips, then it’s the Matrix scenario and we’ll be bowing to robot overlords.
Band wagon
Slippery slope
False analogy
Ad hominem
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Same-sex marriage is wrong because marriage is a bond between a man and a woman.
Begging the question
Red herring
Slippery slope
Straw man
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Either you let me go to the concert, or I’ll be miserable for the rest of my life.
Straw man
Slippery slope
False analogy
False dichotomy
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Opium induces sleep because it has a soporific quality.
Ad hominem
Slippery slope
Bandwagon
Begging the question
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Rush Limbaugh is an idiot; you can’t believe a word he says.
Ad hominem
Red herring
False analogy
Badwagon
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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