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Logical Fallacies Practice

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I was going to go to your birthday party, but then all of my friends told me that they weren't going to go, so I'm not either.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Bandwagon

c)

False Authority

d)

Straw Man

2.

Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely! He is a Democrat and doesn't know what he is talking about.

a)

Over-generalization

b)

False Cause

c)

Red Herring

d)

Ad Hominem

3.

It has been concluded from a recent study involving more than 100, 000 people in Florida that 43 percent of the American people now spend at least two hours a day in some form of recreational activity.

(a)  

4.

The Bridges of Madison County must be a good book, it was on the bestseller list for over 50 weeks.

a)

Slippery Slope

b)

Oversimplification

c)

Hasty-generalization

d)

Red Herring

5.

Andy: "Hey, what's with all this junk food you bought? You're always railing at me about eating healthy."

Aunt Jo: "Don't fuss--it was on sale."

a)

False Cause

b)

Red Herring

c)

Ad Hominem

d)

Over-generalization

6.

Bill purchases a new Mac and it works fine for months. He then installs a new piece of software. The next time he starts up his Mac it freezes. Bill concludes that the software must be the cause of the freeze.

a)

Bandwagon

b)

Straw Man

c)

Appeal to Authority

d)

False Cause

7.

Happiness is the highest good for a human being, since all other values are inferior to it.

(a)  

8.

Socrates' arguments about human excellence are rubbish. What could a man as ugly as he know about humane excellence.

a)

Ad Hominem

b)

Appeal to Authority

c)

Self-Contradiction

d)

Oversimplification

9.

If you vote for me I can fix all of our school's problems.

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Self-Contradiction

c)

Oversimplification

d)

Red Herring

10.

Children of faculty are brats. I baby-sit for one of my professors and his children are spoiled and demanding.

a)

Oversimplification

b)

Over-generalization

c)

Appeal to Authority

d)

Slippery Slope

11.

I agree with Alec Baldwin's stance on global warming. He must know what he's talking about, being a famous celebrity and all.

(a)  

12.

Three teens at Concord had car accidents last year which proves that teens are really dangerous behind the wheel.

a)

Over-generalization

b)

Self-contradiction

c)

False Cause

d)

Oversimplification

13.

I looked on wikipedia and it says that performance is a dying art; therefore, it must be true.

a)

Red Herring

b)

False Cause

c)

Straw Man

d)

Appeal to Authority

14.

Mom, why can't I get my tongue pierced? Everyone else is doing it.

(a)  

15.

I was assigned a personal trainer at the Rec, and he gave me a new workout program. But I don't have any confidence in his expertise since he has obvious trouble controlling his own appetite.

a)

Straw Man

b)

Ad Hominem

c)

Red Herring

d)

Hasty-generalization

16.

A man owns a Ford truck. It breaks down. A friend of his reports that he once had a Ford that also broke down. The two men reason that all Fords must be unreliable, shoddy vehicles.

a)

Bandwagon

b)

Self-contradiction

c)

Hasty-generalization

d)

Slippery Slope

17.

George: We should support an egalitarian society so we are treated as equals.

John: My opponent here wants everyone equal so we can become communists run by a fascist dictator.

(a)  

18.

A black cat crossed Joe's path and later that day his computer crashed. If it weren't for that cat, his computer would still be working.

a)

Appeal to Authority

b)

False Cause

c)

Straw Man

d)

Red Herring

19.

You can't give me a C! I'm not a C student!

a)

Circular Reasoning

b)

Slippery Slope

c)

Self-Contradiction

d)

Red Herring

20.

"I think that we should make the academic requirements stricter for students. I recommend that you support this because we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected."

a)

Over-generalization

b)

Appeal to Authority

c)

False Cause

d)

Red Herring

21.

Opening safe injection sites will lead to a catastrophic increase in drug abuse in the neighborhood. More drug abuse inevitably leads to more crime, especially violent crime. The neighborhood will be overrun with criminals and fall apart at the seams.

(a)  

22.

Why are logical fallacies commonly used? Are they effective or not?

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23.

Do you believe that advertising, newspaper articles, etc., have a moral obligation to avoid using logical fallacies? Why or why not?

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