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Logical Fallacies Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is a Red Herring fallacy?

a)

When a speaker skips to an irrelevant topic to avoid the topic of discussion

b)

When insufficient evidence is used to support a claim

c)

When inaccurate information is given to back a claim

d)

When a topic is generalized

2.

What is a Ad Hominem fallacy?

a)

When insufficient evidence is used to back up a claim

b)

When the speaker brings up an irrelevant topic in order to shift focus to the claim

c)

When the speaker stops talking about the issue and attacks the opponent instead

d)

When the speaker makes a generalization

3.

What is a Straw Man fallacy?

a)

When the speaker stops talking about the issue and attacks the opponent instead

b)

When the speaker repeats the claim instead of presenting evidence

c)

When the speaker presents two extreme options are the only choices

d)

When a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute

4.

What is a Faulty Analogy fallacy?

a)

When two non-comparable things are put up against each other as evidence

b)

When the speaker presents faulty information

c)

When the speaker only gives two extreme examples as an option

d)

When the speaker switches to attacking their opponent instead of refuting the argument

5.

What is an Either/or Fallacy or False Dilemma?

a)

When the speaker presents a claim based on insufficient evidence

b)

When the speaker compares two things with different meanings

c)

When the speaker presents extreme options as the only possible choices

d)

When the speaker attacks the opponent instead of discussing the issue

6.

What is the Hasty Generalization fallacy?

a)

When the speaker repeats the clam as evidence

b)

When the speaker bases a claim on insufficient evidence

c)

When the speaker brings up an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the topic

d)

When the speaker has views that are both extreme and inaccurate

7.

What is Circular Reasoning fallacy?

a)

When the speaker stops talking about the issue and attacks the opponent instead

b)

When the speaker compares two things without similarities

c)

When the speaker presents extreme options as the only possible choices

d)

When the speaker repeats the claim as evidence of the claim

8.

What is the fallacy when an author claims that something is a cause because it happened earlier?

a)

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

b)

Hasty Generalization

c)

Straw Man Fallacy

d)

Faulty Analogy

9.

What is it called when an author uses examples of popular things to try and convince an audience?

a)

Straw Man Fallacy

b)

Bandwagon Appeal

c)

Circular Reasoning

d)

Red Herring

10.

When an author uses someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue

a)

Straw Man Fallacy

b)

Bandwagon Appeal

c)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

d)

Appeal to False Authority

11.

What is it called when a speaker attacks their opponent instead of arguing the point?

a)

Bandwagon Appeal

b)

Straw Man Fallacy

c)

Ad Hominem Fallacy

d)

Either/ or Fallacy

12.

What is it called when a speaker bases their claim on insufficient evidence?

a)

Hasty Generalization

b)

Red Herring

c)

Faulty Analogy

d)

Circular Reasoning