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Prof. Sims's Logical Fallacy Quiz Game

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You can’t believe Jack when he says the proposed policy would help the economy. He doesn’t even have a job.

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Band wagon

c)

False dichotomy

d)

Red herring

2.

Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong.

a)

Begging the question

b)

Slippery slope

c)

Bandwagon

d)

Ad hominem

3.

Technology’s advancing too fast. First iPhones, then brain chips, then it’s the Matrix scenario and we’ll be bowing to robot overlords.

a)

Band wagon

b)

Slippery slope

c)

False analogy

d)

Ad hominem

4.

Same-sex marriage is wrong because marriage is a bond between a man and a woman.

a)

Begging the question

b)

Red herring

c)

Slippery slope

d)

Straw man

5.

Either you let me go to the concert, or I’ll be miserable for the rest of my life.

a)

Straw man

b)

Slippery slope

c)

False analogy

d)

False dichotomy

6.

Opium induces sleep because it has a soporific quality.

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Slippery slope

c)

Bandwagon

d)

Begging the question

7.

Rush Limbaugh is an idiot; you can’t believe a word he says.

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Red herring

c)

False analogy

d)

Badwagon

8.

All jackasses have long ears. My ex is a jackass. Therefore, my ex has long ears.

a)

Equivocation

b)

Slippery slope

c)

Stirring symbols

d)

Hasty generalization

9.

The doctor on TV said that the side effects were negligible.

a)

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

b)

False authority

c)

Equivocation

d)

Ad hominem

10.

We shouldn’t change the Red Skins team name. I mean, financially it’s an unsound goal, and we really ought to redesign the uniforms.

a)

Oversimplification

b)

Red herring

c)

False authority

d)

Bandwagon

11.

James is a good person because he’s awesome.

a)

Non sequitur

b)

False dichotomy

c)

Begging the question

d)

Strawman

12.

If you’re not for us, you’re against us.

a)

Begging the question

b)

Slippery slope

c)

False analogy

d)

False dichotomy

13.

The last three dates she had were awful. She’s not dating anymore, because it’s a horrible activity.

a)

Hasty generalization

b)

Stirring symbols

c)

Begging the question

d)

Red herring

14.

I got sick after my flu shot. I’m never getting one again, because they make me sick.

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Bandwagon

c)

Slippery slope

d)

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

15.

Ben was part of a convict rehabilitation program while he was in prison, but the day after he got out of jail he robbed a liquor store. Obviously those programs don't work.

a)

Hasty generalization

b)

Slippery slope

c)

False authority

d)

Non sequitur

16.

Don't trust that man. He never does the dishes.

a)

Stirring symbols

b)

Non sequitur

c)

Oversimplification

d)

Equivocation

17.

The student's paper argued that we can: "End starvation by feeding the hungry." What fallacy did the student commit?

a)

Oversimplification

b)

Begging the question

c)

Equivocation

d)

False Dichotomy

18.

You want to raise the minimum wage? I don't agree! You want to give handouts rather than making people work for a living. I bet you think I should give homeless people money out of my own pocket, too!

a)

Ad hominem

b)

Red herring

c)

Bandwagon

d)

Straw-person

19.

When I saw the politician standing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, I was so moved that I voted for that politician.

a)

Stirring symbols

b)

Non sequitur

c)

Red herring

d)

Bandwagon

20.

Every time to rooster crows, the suns comes up. The rooster must be very powerful and important, since it makes the sun rise.

a)

Equivocation

b)

Hasty generalization

c)

False authority

d)

Post hoc ergo propter hoc