Quiz on Types of Fallacies

What fallacy involves attacking the person instead of the argument?

• Appeal to Authority

• Attacking the Person

• Hasty Generalization

• Fallacy of Composition

Which fallacy uses threats to advance an argument?

• Appeal to Pity

• Appeal to Force

• Bandwagon Fallacy

• Fallacy of Division

What is the fallacy that uses emotions like pity to convince someone?

• Appeal to Tradition

• Appeal to Pity

• Fallacy of Accident

• Cause-and-Effect Fallacy

Which fallacy argues something is true because many people believe it?

• Bandwagon Fallacy

• Fallacy of Equivocation

• Begging the Question

• Appeal to Ignorance

What fallacy assumes something is true because it has been practiced for a long time?

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Tradition

• Fallacy of Composition

• Fallacy of Division

Which fallacy assumes something is true because it hasn't been proven false?

• Fallacy of Accident

• Appeal to Ignorance

• Appeal to Authority

• Cause-and-Effect Fallacy

What is the fallacy that assumes the conclusion in the premises?

• Fallacy of Composition

• Fallacy of Division

• Attacking the Person

• Begging the Question

Which fallacy makes a broad generalization based on insufficient evidence?

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Tradition

• Fallacy of Equivocation

• Appeal to Force

What fallacy assumes a causal relationship between two unrelated events?

• Fallacy of Division

• Fallacy of Accident

• Appeal to Pity

• Cause-and-Effect Fallacy

Which fallacy assumes that what is true for a part is true for the whole?

• Fallacy of Composition

• Fallacy of Division

• Hasty Generalization

• Appeal to Authority