Fallacy

Fallacy

11th Grade

15 Qs

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Fallacy

Fallacy

Assessment

Quiz

English

11th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
RI.8.8, L.11-12.6, L.3.2F

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"I have already paid a consultant $1000 to look into the pros and cons of starting that new business division. He advised that I shouldn’t move forward with it because it is a declining market. However, if I don’t move forward, that $1000 would have been wasted, so I better move forward anyway."

sunk costs fallacy

red herring fallacy

strawman fallacy

slippery slope fallacy

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Using a celebrity endorsement is typically an appeal to false authority.

True

False

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

Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and perhaps the foremost expert in the field, says that evolution is true. Therefore, it's true.

appeal to authority

bandwagon

sunk costs

appeal to ignorance

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

Media Image

Name that Fallacy-Distracting from the question

Did you break the lamp? ( I chose to distract you with the following.)

"Your eyes are really pretty in this light. Have you ever thought of becoming a model?"

Red Herring

Ad hominem

Slippery slope

Bandwagon

Hasty Generalization

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

Media Image

Name that Fallacy- Attacking the person not the argument

Red Herring

Ad hominem

Slippery slope

Bandwagon

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Name that Fallacy-You can either buy this black car or spend the rest of your life walking to school.

Red Herring

Ad hominem

Slippery slope

Black or White

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Name that Fallacy-A single action will result in an unlikely chain of events

If you come tardy to class , you will end up in jail.

Red Herring

Ad hominem

Slippery slope

Black or White

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