
Fallacies
Authored by Brenna Garrison
English
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When the author is trying to convince you of something:
persuade
author's purpose
entertain
describe
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When the author presents you facts and statistics but they are false and misleading:
logical fallacies
rhetoric
author's purpose
logos
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of "ad hominem?"
Mary shouldn't be believed because people say she's a witch.
Cheevers believes that people either believe him or that are witches.
Mary Warren reminds the Proctors that she is an official of the court and can accuse anyone of witchcraft.
Elizabeth had a doll, so the needle must be from her.
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is an example of "slippery slope?"
One person has been accused of witchcraft, so eventually all of his/her acquaintances are also witches.
Hale arrived just before the house burned, therefore he caused it.
Mary misdirects the audience to change the subject.
Danforth leads Mary to answer questions in ways that benefit him.
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a fallacy?
When someone cheats on someone else.
When someone bases an argument off of faulty reasoning.
When someone wins an argument because they had good reasons.
When someone loses an argument because they had bad reasons.
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
You've got to teach the boys logic! If you don't teach them logic, they won't learn how to think, and they'll become hobos and die in prison! Don't you care about your sons? (Mother to Father)
either/or
post hoc ergo propter hoc
faulty equivalence
strawman
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Bert: I've been learning about the Second World War lately. I found that America provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor. I don't think that was the right thing to do.
Jenny: Oh, so you are now taking the side of Axis? Do you think Germany and Japan were right to do what they did?
false cause
strawman
ad hominem
reducto ad absurdum
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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