This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Logic > Logical Fallacies – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Logical Fallacies Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it A) Bandwagon. B) Appeal to authority. C) Begging the claim. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon. 2. "Almost everyone at my school will be at the party Friday night. It must be the right thing to do." A) Appeal to Authority. B) Equivocation. C) Appeal to Pity. D) Bandwagon Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bandwagon Fallacy. 3. Occurs when two or more points are rolled into one and the reader is expected to accept or reject both at the same time, when one point may be satisfactory while the other is not A) SLIPPERY SLOPE. B) APPEAL TO FORCE. C) COMPLEX QUESTION. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) COMPLEX QUESTION. 4. Identify the logical fallacy of this argument:Everyone goes to Starbucks for coffee so their coffee must be the best. A) Band Wagon Appeal. B) False Cause Fallacy. C) Straw Man Fallacy. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Band Wagon Appeal. 5. What is the name of the fallacy that involves presenting only two options when more exist? A) Slippery Slope. B) Appeal to Authority. C) False Dichotomy. D) No True Scotsman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False Dichotomy. 6. My Uber driver in Cincinatti, Ohio was loud and obnoxious. Everyone from that city is annoying. A) Either/Or Fallacy. B) Circular Reasoning. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Straw Man Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hasty Generalization. 7. If we allow our 14 year-old to have her first date tonight, what's next? A wedding, kids? A) Either/Or. B) Slippery Slope. C) Post Hoc (After This). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slippery Slope. 8. My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him. A) False Dilemma. B) Ad Hominem. C) Post Hoc. D) Red Herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ad Hominem. 9. What is the main purpose of understanding logical fallacies? A) To engage in critical thinking and make informed decisions. B) To win every argument. C) To confuse opponents in debates. D) To avoid all discussions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To engage in critical thinking and make informed decisions. 10. "All teenagers are irresponsible because I saw one teenager littering." A) Bandwagon. B) Strawman. C) Circular Reasoning. D) Sweeping Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sweeping Generalization. 11. George Bush is a good communicator because he speaks effectively. A) Moral Equivalence. B) Circular Argument. C) Either/or. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circular Argument. 12. Starbucks pledged to hire 10, 000 refugees in stores worldwide. They should be hiring veterans and military spouses instead! A) Faulty causality. B) Either/or. C) Slippery slope. D) Non-sequitur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Either/or. 13. Which type of logical fallacy is presented?"Architects believe that building in this form and shape may not be well planned and designed." A) Anonymous Authority. B) Appeal to Authority. C) Appeal to Pity. D) Appeal to Force. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anonymous Authority. 14. When an unspecified source is used as evidence for the claim. A) Appeal by emotive language. B) Appeal to common belief. C) Appeal to anonymous authority. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to anonymous authority. 15. Occurs when an argument which is supposed to prove something concludes something else instead A) INCONSISTENCY. B) AFFIRMING CONSEQUENT. C) IRRELEVANT CONCLUSION. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IRRELEVANT CONCLUSION. 16. "All people from Crete are liars." A) False Dilemma. B) Strawman argument. C) Ad Hominem. D) Appeal to Ignorance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ad Hominem. 17. What is a bandwagon? A) Golden state warriar fans. B) A wagon that plays mmusic. C) The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it. D) When people who have instruments play in a wagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it. 18. Which logical fallacy involves attacking the character of the person making an argument rather than the argument itself? A) Slippery Slope. B) Ad Hominem. C) Red Herring. D) Strawman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ad Hominem. 19. Which fallacy is this? McDonalds ' burgers must be good; Michael Jordan eats them. A) Non-Sequitur. B) Either/Or (False Dichotomy). C) Appeal to Authority. D) Appeal to Popularity (Bandwagon). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to Authority. 20. "The police should stop environmental demonstrators from inconveniencing the general public. We pay our taxes." "Surely global meltdown is infinitely worse than a little inconvenience?" A) Red Herring. B) Appeals to authority. C) Begging the question. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 21. What is a Slippery Slope Fallacy? A) A fallacy suggesting one event will lead to negative events without evidence. B) A method of proving an argument wrong. C) A fallacy that denies any negative outcomes. D) A logical argument that predicts a positive outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A fallacy suggesting one event will lead to negative events without evidence. 22. What is the false analogy fallacy? A) Comparing two things that are not similar. B) Claiming something is true because it hasn't been proven false. C) Using language to arouse unreasoned feelings. D) Attacking a false version of someone's argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparing two things that are not similar. 23. There is a proposal that we should require all high school students to participate in some type of community service. I don't know what you think about that, but teachers don't get paid enough for all of the things that we do. A) False Analogy. B) Straw Man. C) Red Herring. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Herring. 24. Asthma can be reversed, as my sister cured hers buy spending fifteen minutes out in the cold every day last winter. A) Hasty Generalization. B) Misplaced Cause and Effect. C) Slippery Slope. D) Insufficient Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Insufficient Evidence. 25. My grandmother ate 10 cloves of raw garlic every day. Not surprisingly, she lived to be 102. A) Faulty Analogy. B) Straw man. C) Bandwagon. D) Post Hoc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faulty Analogy. 26. Since Anna Camacho became vice president of the parent-teacher association, student performance has declined and teacher morale is down. We on the school board believe that Camacho bears sole responsibility for the downtrend. A) Hasty Generalization. B) Straw Man. C) False Causation. D) False Dichotomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False Causation. 27. "Why are you even asking for a later curfew? Shouldn't you be focused on improving your grades instead?" A) Red Herring. B) Straw Man. C) Loaded Language. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 28. Which of the following is the best definition for slippery slope? A) When Y is presented to produce fear, so claim X is true. B) When someone's claim is considered false because their words are inconsistent with their actions. C) Event A has occurred, so event Z will inevitably happen. D) Person A makes claim X, Person B makes an attack on Person A, Therefore A's claim is false. E) A occurs before B, therefore A is the cause of B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Event A has occurred, so event Z will inevitably happen. 29. Definition:appealing to emotional biases while ignoring the issues A) Begging the question. B) Circular argument. C) Argument to the people. D) Post hoc fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argument to the people. 30. Teacher:If I let you go to the bathroom pretty soon everybody will want to go to the bathroom. This is an example of: A) Ad Hominem. B) Slippery Slope. C) Texas Sharpshooter. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slippery Slope. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesLogical Fallacies Quiz 1Logical Fallacies Quiz 2Logical Fallacies Quiz 3Logical Fallacies Quiz 4Logical Fallacies Quiz 6Logical Fallacies Quiz 7Logical Fallacies Quiz 8Logical Fallacies Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books