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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument.
1. The first rule of good behavior is always be yourself. Therefore, professional actors, who adopt the role of someone
other than themselves, are behaving improperly.
a. No fallacy.
b. Begging the question.
c. Tu quoque (you, too).
d. Weak analogy.
e. Accident.
2. Movie star Glitzy Glamour says in magazine ads that Sparkle cosmetics are fabulous. Given Glitzy’s incredible
popularity, we must conclude that Sparkle cosmetics are indeed fabulous, just as she says.
a. No fallacy.
b. Missing the point.
c. Appeal to the people.
d. Appeal to unqualified authority.
e. Appeal to ignorance.
3. United States Marshals are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom. But attorneys are officers of the court, no
less than U.S. Marshals. Therefore, attorneys are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom.
a. Weak analogy.
b. No fallacy.
c. Appeal to unqualified authority.
d. Hasty generalization.
e. Equivocation.
4. After getting settled in your new job, you will want to buy a home in the Woodland district. Woodland is true prestige,
and all of our upscale employees live there.
a. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
b. No fallacy.
c. Appeal to the people.
d. Red herring.
e. Appeal to force.
5. It would not be a good idea to hire Mr. Larson as a bus driver for the school district. Larson has huge cataracts in both
eyes, and he hates children.
a. Argument against the person, abusive.
b. No fallacy.
c. Tu quoque (you, too).
d. False cause.
e. Division.
6. Either you enlist in the Marine Corps or you’ll be a baby for the rest of your life. The choice is yours.
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a. Composition.
b. Appeal to force.
c. Suppressed evidence.
d. False dichotomy.
e. No fallacy.
7. People don’t have to go to college to make a lot of money. Look at Richard Branson, Chairman of the Virgin Group.
He’s a billionaire, yet he was a terrible student, and he dropped out of school when he was sixteen.
a. False dichotomy.
b. Hasty generalization.
c. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
d. No fallacy.
e. Weak analogy.
8. Lake Michigan contains fish. Therefore, every cubic foot of lake Michigan contains fish.
a. Division.
b. Accident.
c. No fallacy.
d. Composition.
e. Missing the point.
9. None of Mr. Konrad’s friends has ever seen him smoke a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Therefore, probably Mr. Konrad is a
nonsmoker.
a. Appeal to ignorance.
b. Complex question.
c. No fallacy.
d. Appeal to unqualified authority.
e. Straw man.
10. Betty’s argument for changing the voting age is ridiculous. Betty dropped out of school after the seventh grade, and
the most responsible job she has ever held is working as a clerk in a grocery store.
a. Appeal to unqualified authority.
b. Hasty generalization.
c. No fallacy.
d. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
e. Argument against the person, abusive.
11. The last three times I invested money in the stock market, stock prices declined. Therefore, to prevent further declines,
I must stop investing any more money.
a. Missing the point.
b. No fallacy.
c. Straw man.
d. False cause.
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e. Amphiboly.
12. Frank argues that it’s not a good idea for underage people to drink alcoholic beverages. Apparently Frank wants
everyone to be a teetotaler. Bring back prohibition for good—that’s what Frank wants. But prohibition was a complete
failure in the thirties. Obviously Frank’s argument is misguided.
a. Accident.
b. Begging the question.
c. No fallacy.
d. Hasty generalization.
e. Straw man.
13. Bill, I saw you at the party the other night. You were with a beautiful redhead. Level with me, are you still cheating on
your wife?
a. Begging the question.
b. Tu quoque (you, too).
c. Complex question.
d. Division.
e. No fallacy.
14. Jason is a terrible chess player. But every chess player is a human being. Therefore, Jason is a terrible human being.
a. Division.
b. Equivocation.
c. Amphiboly.
d. No fallacy.
e. Argument against the person, abusive.
15. Every thread in this shirt is pure silk. Therefore, this shirt is pure silk.
a. No fallacy.
b. Division.
c. Accident.
d. Composition.
e. Weak analogy.
16. The FBI and the CIA failed to prevent the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Therefore, these government
agencies should be abolished immediately.
a. Missing the point.
b. Red herring.
c. False cause.
d. No fallacy.
e. Hasty generalization.
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17. Stem cell research is clearly immoral because any activity that destroys human beings is immoral.
a. Complex question.
b. Appeal to the people.
c. No fallacy.
d. Appeal to ignorance.
e. Begging the question.
18. Barbara argues that we should develop fuel cell cars that run more efficiently with less pollution. But look at what
Barbara drives. It’s one of those gas guzzling SUVs that pollute like a steam locomotive. Obviously Barbara’s argument is
worthless.
a. No fallacy.
b. Missing the point.
c. Appeal to unqualified authority.
d. Tu quoque (you, too).
e. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
19. During the four years that Allison has been president of the Westridge Retirement Club, five members have contracted
diabetes. Therefore, to prevent any more cases of this disease we must elect a new president immediately.
a. Begging the question.
b. False cause.
c. Accident.
d. Slippery slope.
e. No fallacy.
20. During the past two hundred years no one has been cured of Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, it is unlikely that anyone
will be cured in the next two hundred years.
a. Equivocation.
b. Amphiboly.
c. Suppressed evidence.
d. No fallacy.
e. Appeal to pity.
21. Members of the jury, surely defendant Jones is not guilty of kidnapping the little girl. Jones loves children dearly, and
during the first ten years of his marriage he prayed every day for a child. Finally, his wife gave birth to a little boy, but
then she and the boy were killed in a car accident.
a. Slippery slope.
b. No fallacy.
c. Appeal to pity.
d. Appeal to the people.
e. Appeal to force.
22. New York is located in the United States. Therefore, native born New Yorkers are native born Americans.
a. Begging the question.
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b. Weak analogy.
c. Composition.
d. No fallacy.
e. Missing the point.
23. George argues that prize fighting should be outlawed. But many prize fighters have been great athletes—Muhammad
Ali, Lennox Lewis, Rocky Marciano, and Joe Louis, to name just a few. Clearly George is mistaken.
a. No fallacy.
b. Red herring.
c. Appeal to unqualified authority.
d. False cause.
e. Straw man.
24. Michelle said she saw a man get run over by a car while standing on her porch. We can only conclude that her porch
was severely damaged.
a. False dichotomy.
b. Straw man.
c. No fallacy.
d. Equivocation.
e. Amphiboly.
25. Nobody has ever proved that the prophecies of Nostradamus are false. Therefore, they must be true.
a. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
b. Tu quoque (you, too).
c. Missing the point.
d. Appeal to ignorance.
e. No fallacy.
26. Religious fanatics are basically crazy because they are deluded. Of course they are deluded because they believe
nonsense. And they believe nonsense because they are hopelessly narrow minded. Naturally they are hopelessly narrow
minded because they are basically crazy.
a. Begging the question.
b. Red herring.
c. No fallacy.
d. Straw man.
e. Slippery slope.
27. Maria’s argument for abolishing the Immigration Service can’t be trusted. After all, Maria is an undocumented
immigrant, and if the Immigration Service is abolished, she will never be caught and deported.
a. Straw man.
b. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
c. Missing the point.
d. Tu quoque (you, too).
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e. No fallacy.
28. Professor Stevens, the great English scholar, says that Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales represents a milestone in the
development of the English language. Therefore, the Canterbury Tales must indeed be a milestone, just as he says.
a. Appeal to force.
b. No fallacy.
c. Amphiboly.
d. Appeal to unqualified authority.
e. False cause.
29. It would be a mistake to provide new gloves to the school’s baseball players. In no time the football players will want
new equipment. Then the tennis players will want new courts, the hockey players will want a new arena, the swimmers
will want a new pool, and the golfers will want their own special course. The costs for these facilities will go through the
roof.
a. Composition.
b. Equivocation.
c. Accident.
d. Slippery slope.
e. No fallacy.
30. George likes chocolate truffles, and he also likes Tabasco sauce. Therefore he would certainly like some chocolate
truffles topped with Tabasco sauce.
a. Accident.
b. Appeal to pity.
c. Hasty generalization.
d. Begging the question.
e. Composition.
31. Professor Carroll, of course you agree that all of us deserve an excellent grade in this class. Because if you don’t, you’ll
get rotten evaluations at the end of the semester, and as a result, you may be denied tenure.
a. Complex question.
b. Division.
c. Appeal to pity.
d. Appeal to force.
e. No fallacy.
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each question.
32. Which of the following statements involves the collective predication of an attribute?
a. Sunflowers are yellow.
b. Fire trucks are noisy.
c. Wine is alcoholic.
d. Solar eclipses are infrequent.
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e. Germany is in northern Europe.
33. The gambler’s fallacy is a variety of:
a. Accident.
b. False cause.
c. Slippery slope.
d. Suppressed evidence.
e. False dichotomy.
34. Given the argument, “All cats are animals, and some animals are mammals; thus, some cats are mammals.” This
argument:
a. Contains an informal fallacy.
b. Is strong.
c. Contains a formal fallacy.
d. Contains a disjunctive fallacy.
e. Is valid.
35. Which of the following is presented as a factor leading to the commission of fallacies?
a. The arguer’s desire to feel superior.
b. An anti-logical disposition in the mind of the arguer.
c. A lack of formal education.
d. A genetic defect in the arguer.
e. Presuppositions in the arguer’s worldview.
36. Which of the following fallacies involves distributive predication in the conclusion of an argument?
a. Hasty generalization.
b. Division.
c. Accident.
d. Composition.
e. False cause.
37. Which of the following fallacies arises from a statement made by someone other than the arguer?
a. Equivocation.
b. Argument against the person, circumstantial.
c. Amphiboly.
d. Appeal to force.
e. Appeal to the people.
38. Which of the following fallacies always involves two arguers?
a. Complex question.
b. Argument against the person.
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c. Red herring.
d. Appeal to unqualified authority.
e. Begging the question.
39. A fallacy that can be detected by merely examining the form of an argument is:
a. A fallacy of presumption.
b. An informal fallacy.
c. A fallacy of relevance.
d. A fallacy of weak induction.
e. A formal fallacy.
40. The bandwagon argument is a variety of:
a. False cause.
b. Missing the point.
c. Appeal to ignorance.
d. Appeal to the people.
e. Red herring.