This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Logic > Logical Fallacies – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Logical Fallacies Quiz 6 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the fallacy that involves presenting only two options when more exist? A) Slippery Slope. B) False Dichotomy. C) Appeal to Authority. D) No True Scotsman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False Dichotomy. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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) Red Herring. B) False Dilemma. C) Post Hoc. D) Ad Hominem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ad Hominem. 5. 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. 6. "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. 7. George Bush is a good communicator because he speaks effectively. A) Straw Man. B) Either/or. C) Circular Argument. D) Moral Equivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circular Argument. 8. Starbucks pledged to hire 10, 000 refugees in stores worldwide. They should be hiring veterans and military spouses instead! A) Slippery slope. B) Either/or. C) Faulty causality. D) Non-sequitur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Either/or. 9. Which type of logical fallacy is presented?"Architects believe that building in this form and shape may not be well planned and designed." A) Appeal to Authority. B) Anonymous Authority. C) Appeal to Force. D) Appeal to Pity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anonymous Authority. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. "All people from Crete are liars." A) Ad Hominem. B) Appeal to Ignorance. C) Strawman argument. D) False Dilemma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ad Hominem. 13. What is a bandwagon? A) When people who have instruments play in a wagon. B) The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it. C) Golden state warriar fans. D) A wagon that plays mmusic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it. 14. Which logical fallacy involves attacking the character of the person making an argument rather than the argument itself? A) Strawman. B) Ad Hominem. C) Red Herring. D) Slippery Slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ad Hominem. 15. 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. 16. "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) Begging the question. B) Red Herring. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Appeals to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red Herring. 17. 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. 18. What is the false analogy fallacy? A) Attacking a false version of someone's argument. B) Comparing two things that are not similar. C) Using language to arouse unreasoned feelings. D) Claiming something is true because it hasn't been proven false. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparing two things that are not similar. 19. 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) Red Herring. B) Straw Man. C) False Analogy. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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) False Causation. B) False Dichotomy. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False Causation. 23. "Why are you even asking for a later curfew? Shouldn't you be focused on improving your grades instead?" A) Red Herring. B) Circular Reasoning. C) Straw Man. D) Loaded Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 24. Which of the following is the best definition for slippery slope? A) Person A makes claim X, Person B makes an attack on Person A, Therefore A's claim is false. B) When someone's claim is considered false because their words are inconsistent with their actions. C) When Y is presented to produce fear, so claim X is true. D) A occurs before B, therefore A is the cause of B. E) Event A has occurred, so event Z will inevitably happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Event A has occurred, so event Z will inevitably happen. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesLogical Fallacies Quiz 1Logical Fallacies Quiz 2Logical Fallacies Quiz 3Logical Fallacies Quiz 4Logical Fallacies Quiz 5Logical Fallacies Quiz 7Logical Fallacies Quiz 8Logical Fallacies Quiz 9Logical Fallacies Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books