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PHI 103 Week 3 Quiz 1
Question 1
“Either you will wear sunblock or get skin
cancer when you get older.” This statement commits which of the following
fallacies?
o
Straw man
o
Red herring
o
Appeal to ridicule
o
False dilemma
o
None of these
Question 2
“Every time I wash my car it rains the next
day. I’d better not wash my car unless I want it to rain again.” This reasoning
commits which of the following fallacies?
o
Appeal to popular opinion
o
Begging the question
o
False cause
o
Loaded question
o
None of these
Question 3
When the subject or
direction or topic of the argument is changed, then we have an instance of
which kind of fallacy?
o
Ad hominem
o
Appeal to popular belief or practice
o
Red herring
o
Straw man
Question 4
In the ______________
fallacy, the flawed reasoning lies in accepting that because most people
believe that X is the case, then it must be true that X is the case.
o
Ad hominem
o
Appeal to popular opinion
o
Appeal to authority
o
Slippery slope
Question 5
Informal fallacies
relate to errors in __________.
o
the form of the argument
o
the structure of the argument
o
the content of the argument
o
None of these
Question 6
“If you oppose gun
control, then you must believe it’s ok for people to kill people all of the
time.” This statement commits which of the following fallacies?
o
Straw man
o
False cause
o
Appeal to popular opinion
o
Appeal to inadequate authority
o
None of these
Question 7
“She is opposed to universal health care. She
must be fine with sick people not being able to get medical treatment.” This
statement commits which of the following fallacies?
o
Accident
o
Straw man
o
False dilemma
o
False cause
o
None of these
Question 8
In the _________
argument, if the first event occurs, then another will follow, and it this
happens, then another will follow, and this will be followed by progressively
worse outcomes leading to a most undesirable end. This chain of conditional
inferences is fallacious only if one or more of the chains is false or
implausible, or if the indicated end is neither objectionable nor undesirable.
o
ad hominem
o
appeal to popular belief or practice
o
appeal to authority
o
slippery slope
Question 9
“My friend Mike doesn’t like this perfume, so
men don’t like this perfume.” This reasoning commits which of the following
fallacies?
o
Hasty generalization
o
Appeal to pity
o
False cause
o
Red herring
o
None of these
Question 10
Which of the following
sources of information is least likely to be distorted by someone with an
interest in manipulation?
o
A weather report on TV
o
A politician’s campaign speech
o
A TV advertisement for a product
o
An attorney’s closing argument for his
or her client
o
None of these
Question 11
Person 1: “Professor
Smith states that the economy is likely to do well in the next few years.”
Person 2: “I wouldn’t
listen to him; he is a terrible teacher.”
In this example, Person
2 is committing which of the following fallacies?
o
Appeal to fear
o
Ad hominem
o
Accident
o
Slippery slope
o
None of these
Question 12
“This product is guaranteed to work, provided,
of course, that you are a proper candidate for it.” This statement employs
which of the following rhetorical devices?
o
Weaseler
o
Euphemism
o
Proof surrogate
o
Paralipsis
o
No device used
Question 13
Suppose that one news
outlet makes the president’s actions sound very reasonable, whereas the other
makes the president’s actions sound horrible. This is an example of __________.
o
Photo manipulation
o
Irony
o
Spin
o
Flat-out lies
o
All of these
Question 14
Chapter 8 lists several
ways that the media can deliberately mislead us. Which of the following is not
one of the ways mentioned in the chapter?
o
Photo manipulation
o
Spin
o
Product placement
o
Rhetorical devices
o
It mentions all of these
Question 15
What is an interested
party?
o
A person who finds the topic fascinating
o
A person with a stake in the outcome
o
A person who earns money from
investments over time
o
None of these
o
All of these
Question 16
“You shouldn’t do that because it is wrong.”
This argument commits which of the following fallacies?
o
Slippery slope
o
Hasty generalization
o
False dichotomy
o
Begging the question
o
None of these
Question 17
“Killing animals is wrong because it violates
their right to life.” This reasoning commits which of the following fallacieas?
o
Appeal to fear
o
Begging the question
o
Ad hominem
o
Shifting the burden of proof
o
None of these
Question 18
Which of the following
is a good example of product placement?
o
Putting the product next to a beloved
celebrity
o
Citing a study of experts supporting the
product
o
Not listing all of its potential side
effects
o
Making its leading competitor sound
terrible
o
None of these
Question 19
Which one of the
following contains a euphemism?
o
“He is lazy”
o
“He studies less than the average
student”
o
“He is motivationally challenged”
o
“His GPA is 1.5”
o
None of these
Question 20
Which of the following
contains a dysphemism?
o
Abigail is humble
o
Abigail is very depressing
o
Abigail is working for an NGO
o
Abigail is 5’7”
o
None of these
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