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18 Correct: 7 Incorrect: 28% 72%

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Walter has taken the position against the tuition hike, set to take effect this fall. He says it will make it impossible for deserving, but financially strapped students, to go to college. But of course he would say that! He is only a freshman and just doesn't want to pay the higher fees.
Your Answer: The attack on the person

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. My philosophy professor told us that we need to practice our logic problems everyday, because practice is the only way we will understand it. But, who is she to say this? She told us that when she was in college she rarely studied.
Your Answer: The attack on the person

3.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. The number of bond measures put before the voters is ridiculous. Even though I agree with you that proposition 2 will help our schools, I won't vote for it!
Your Answer: The red herring

4.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. The chauffeur may have had motive to kill Ms. Olsen, but you know

the old saying, "The butler did it." I would look at the butler, Mr. Edmonds, more closely before looking at the driver.
Your Answer: The red herring

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. The president of the conservative student group on campus would like to speak, but every time she tries to give a speech on campus, other students shout her down. Nobody can ever get her perspective on the issues if we don't allow her an opportunity to express them.
Your Answer: The appeal to force

6.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Mother A: The funding for our kids' elementary school has been cut. How do they expect our children to compete in the future marketplace when they do not have pencils today? Mother B: Our state should fund the First Five program more, so that children can be better prepared when they enter kindergarten.
Your Answer: Missing the point (irrelevant conclusion)

7.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of relevance that appears in the following passage. Mayor Santiago was busted with a prostitute just last year. You shouldn't listen to him when he says legalizing prostitution will help raise tax revenue in our state.
Your Answer: The red herring

8.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. If my pastor supports him, he must be the best candidate for senator.
Your Answer: False cause Correct Answer: The appeal to inappropriate authority

See Fallacies of Defective Induction

9.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. I never knew all feminists hate men. I saw a talk sponsored by the Women's Studies department, and the woman speaking said all men are sexist pigs. She clearly hates men.
Your Answer: Hasty generalization

10.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. After Joe's plane landed at Heathrow Airport, he stepped into the bar for a quick drink. He noticed that the women in the bar outnumbered the men, two to one. He quips, "London is the perfect place to find a wife since there are not enough men to go around."
Your Answer: Hasty generalization

11.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. The water in the Santa Ana River hasn't been tested for chemicals, so it is probably safe to drink.
Your Answer: The argument from ignorance

12.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. I don't understand how Obama won. None of my friends voted for him.
Your Answer: Hasty generalization

13.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of defective induction that appears in the following passage. The used-car dealer didn't really know if the car he was selling had

been in Hurricane Katrina, so I guess it is okay to purchase.

Your Answer: The argument from ignorance

14.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. The instructions on this bottle of medicine say that one pill taken with water every four hours will produce no side effects, so taking a whole bottle with water every four hours should produce no side effects.
Your Answer: Composition

15.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. The New York Philharmonic plays classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner. Therefore, its percussionists play classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner.
Your Answer: Division

16.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy that corresponds to the given definition. An informal fallacy arising from the loose, awkward, or mistaken way in which the words are combined, leading to alternative possible meanings of a statement.
Your Answer: Amphiboly

17.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy that corresponds to the given definition. An informal fallacy committed when a term or phrase has a meaning in the conclusion of an argument different from its meaning in one of the premises, the difference arising chiefly from a change in emphasis given to the words used.
Your Answer: (blank)

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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. There will be no frauds tolerated on American soil. Therefore, in order for frauds to be tolerated, we must import soil from other countries.
Your Answer: Accent Correct Answer: Equivocation See Fallacies of Ambiguity

19.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage. In order to be a man, one must be a "real man." Since homosexual men are often accused of not being real men, they must not be men at all.
Your Answer: Division Correct Answer: Equivocation See Fallacies of Ambiguity

20.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. I know she likes me very much. After all, she really is fond of me.
Your Answer: Complex question Correct Answer: Begging the question See Fallacies of Presumption

21.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. Any action that is prohibited by law must be illegal.
Your Answer: Begging the question

22.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy that corresponds to the given

definition. An informal fallacy in which a generalization is applied to individual cases that it does not govern.
Your Answer: Accident

23.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy which corresponds to the given definition. An informal fallacy in which a question is asked in such a way as to presuppose the truth of some proposition buried in the question.
Your Answer: Complex question

24.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. When are voters going to recognize that their vote doesn't count? When will they see that politicians are nothing but puppets of a shadow government?
Your Answer: Begging the question Correct Answer: Complex question See Fallacies of Presumption

25.

Instructions: Identify the fallacy of presumption that appears in the following passage. Are you seeing your mistress tonight?
Your Answer: Begging the question Correct Answer: Complex question See Fallacies of Presumption