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Logical Fallacies Quiz 29 (30 MCQs)

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1. "You shouldn't take up art as a hobby. Only kids who don't care about academics waste their time on that."
2. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
3. If we give in every time our baby cries, he will always pitch a fit to get what he wants, and he will end up in prison because we never set limits.
4. The distortion of an opponent's claim so that it is easier to refute, or where someone tries to refute a point someone made by giving a rebuttal to a point they did not make.
5. We think this new MallTime game app will be a success because all little girls like shopping.
6. People who do not support the proposed state minimum wage increase hate the poor.
7. My professor, who has a Ph.D. in Astronomy, once told me that ghosts are real. Therefore, ghosts are real.
8. Attempts to persuade using emotion rather than evidence. Playing on the pity that someone feels for an individual or group can certainly affect what that person thinks.The argument that because someone in a position of authority thinks something, it must be true.
9. The power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way
10. What is the best way to rewrite a logical fallacy so that it provides logicalreasoning?
11. Which fallacy is being used here? "So many people claim that our trash is ending up in the ocean, but I've spent a ton of time in the ocean. Aside from a few pieces, I've hardly seen any trash out there!"
12. "Good morning! Have you gotten over the grouchy mood you were in?"
13. Identify the logical fallacy in the following statement:'If we allow students to redo their assignments, soon they will expect to redo every test and exam.'
14. An error in thinking or reasoning
15. Name the fallacy:Attacking the person making the argument rather than the argument itself.
16. When someone says that what is true of part of something must also be true of the whole thing.
17. My political opponent is a crook!
18. You absolutely have to do your chores by 5:00. If you are a few minutes late, the next time it will be a few hours, and before you know it, you'll never do your chores again!
19. Only a selfish, non-caring person would believe that this is ok.
20. Which statement appeals to popularity as evidence for its truth?
21. The Equivocation fallacy is using the same word with two different meanings.
22. Encouraged to take some action because other people are doing the same thing.
23. Which is an example of Ad Populum?Most of the kids on my team prefer Gatorade over Powerade. That means .....
24. Every year more people die in car crashes than in plane crashes. You will be much safer if a plane crashes.
25. Which logical fallacy involves misrepresenting an opponent's position?
26. "There are so many dishes all over the place! You never do your dishes!""What about you?! You never take out the trash!"
27. When an author uses someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue
28. Cardenas roots for a British football team. Clearly he's unfit to be a chef at the new restaurant
29. Supports a claim with the claim itself
30. Let's play detective! Can you spot the Two Wrongs Fallacy in these statements?
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