Critical Thinking Quiz 2

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Critical Thinking Quiz 2

Answer all the questions. 

There are 10 questions. 

Good Luck! 

1. All these are fallacies of relevance EXCEPT

1. Attacking the motive
2. Look who's talking
3. Two rights make a wrong
4. Red herring

2. Bandwagon argument is when arguer appeals to a person's desire to be the following EXCEPT:

1. accepted
2. popular
3. reasonable
4. valued

3. Which is the correct definition of Red Herring?

1. arguer appeals to a reader's desire to be accepted
2. arguer attacks the hypocrisy of another arguer
3. arguer tries to distract others by raising an irrelevant issue
4. arguer compromises in order not to feel rejected

4. Skydiving is a dangerous sports because it's unsafe.
This is a sample of

1. ad hominem
2. begging the question
3. bandwagon argument
4. straw man

5. The fallacy of ___________ is committed when an arguer states or assumes as a premise the very thing he or she is trying to prove as a conclusion.

1. scare tactics
2. begging the question
3. straw man
4. tu quoque

6. __________ is the error of criticising a person's motivation for offering a particular argument or claim.

1. Attacking the person
2. Attacking the motive
3. Look who's talking
4. Straw man

7. The following examples show positive relevance EXCEPT

1. James proposed to Diane. Therefore, James must be in love with Diane.
2. Peter is over 6 feet tall. Thus, his classmates are also at least 6 feet tall too.
3. Xu is five year old. Therefore, Xu is probably a young boy.
4. David is the director of a company. Thus, David is probably a rich man.

8. "You must play with me, if not, I will tell mom you're a bad boy." This is an example of :

1. begging the question
2. scare tactics
3. bandwagon argument
4. appeal to pity

9. "My neighbour always tell me to be kind to animals. But yesterday, I saw him abuse a cat." This is a sample of:

1. Look who's talking
2. attacking the motive
3. equivocation
4. begging the question

10. "Sir, I know I was late but I don't deserve to be marked absent. Yesterday my car broke down and my cat died of food poisioning."
This is an example of :

1. red herring
2. appeal to pity
3. ad hominem
4. straw man