
Fallacies and Bias Quiz
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
NAME THAT FALLACY: Distorting or misrepresenting someone's argument in order to make it easier to defeat.
Straw Man
False Equivalence
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
NAME THAT FALLACY: Attempts to discredit an argument by attacking the source or person, not the argument itself.
Straw Man
False Dilemma
Slippery Slope
Ad Hominem
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
NAME THAT FALLACY: In an argument, saying that one event will have serious and extreme unintended consequences (even though evidence doesn't show this).
Slippery Slope
Straw Man
False Equivalence
Ad Hominem
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
NAME THAT FALLACY: In an argument, making a comparison between two subjects because they share SOME similarities, while ignoring the differences between them.
Slippery Slope
False Equivalence
False Dilemma
Straw Man
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
NAME THAT FALLACY: This fallacy is when during an argument one states that there are only a limited number of choices to choose when more options actually exist.
Straw Man
Slippery Slope
False Dilemma
False Equivalence
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"The principal says we can't wear sweatpants. Ugh. Why does he hate us?" This is an example of:
Straw Man fallacy
Slippery Slope fallacy
False Dilemma fallacy
Ad Hominem fallacy
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"If you let students wear sweatpants, next thing you know they will all just come to school in their underwear!" This is an example of:
Slippery Slope fallacy
Ad Hominem fallacy
False Dilemma fallacy
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