Module 13 ENGL Quiz Logical Fallacies Exam
Questions and Answers
Slippery Slope - Answer-If you eat that cookie, you'll want another until you eat too
many cookies. Then you'll get diabetes, and you'll have to get your feet amputated.
/.Circular Reasoning - Answer-I really love that book because it's really great.
/.Straw Man - Answer-You should try to stay healthy.
/.Faulty Analogy - Answer-Arresting protestors for murder is like ignoring the First
Amendment.
/.Slippery Slope - Answer-If I flunk tonight's assignment, my mom will get so mad she'll
throw me out of the house, and I'll die on the streets.
/.Post Hoc - Answer-I ate pizza. Then I got sick. Eating pizza must have made me sick.
/.You can't trick me! This is a good argument, not a fallacy! - Answer-Don't let him
operate on you because he cheated on his medical exams.
/.Bandwagon - Answer-All my friends own mansions, so I should own one, too.
/.Either/Or - Answer-Students can only sign up for literature, technical writing, creative
writing, or composition.
/.Dubious Authority - Answer-Charlie Sheen is half man, half cocaine because
Wikipedia says so.
/.Hasty Generalization - Answer-Lucy and Mary both say they like strawberries, so all
girls must like strawberries.
/.Dubious Authority - Answer-I'm sure Paul Revere did fire shots and ring bells in
warning because that politician said so.
/.Post Hoc - Answer-After I went to graduate school, my boyfriend broke up with me.
Now I wish I hadn't gone to graduate school because then he would still be with me.
/.Ad Hominem - Answer-I don't recommend Dr. Smith because she's caught the flu
before.
/.Bandwagon - Answer-Millions of Americans attend football games, so I should buy a
season pass.
Questions and Answers
Slippery Slope - Answer-If you eat that cookie, you'll want another until you eat too
many cookies. Then you'll get diabetes, and you'll have to get your feet amputated.
/.Circular Reasoning - Answer-I really love that book because it's really great.
/.Straw Man - Answer-You should try to stay healthy.
/.Faulty Analogy - Answer-Arresting protestors for murder is like ignoring the First
Amendment.
/.Slippery Slope - Answer-If I flunk tonight's assignment, my mom will get so mad she'll
throw me out of the house, and I'll die on the streets.
/.Post Hoc - Answer-I ate pizza. Then I got sick. Eating pizza must have made me sick.
/.You can't trick me! This is a good argument, not a fallacy! - Answer-Don't let him
operate on you because he cheated on his medical exams.
/.Bandwagon - Answer-All my friends own mansions, so I should own one, too.
/.Either/Or - Answer-Students can only sign up for literature, technical writing, creative
writing, or composition.
/.Dubious Authority - Answer-Charlie Sheen is half man, half cocaine because
Wikipedia says so.
/.Hasty Generalization - Answer-Lucy and Mary both say they like strawberries, so all
girls must like strawberries.
/.Dubious Authority - Answer-I'm sure Paul Revere did fire shots and ring bells in
warning because that politician said so.
/.Post Hoc - Answer-After I went to graduate school, my boyfriend broke up with me.
Now I wish I hadn't gone to graduate school because then he would still be with me.
/.Ad Hominem - Answer-I don't recommend Dr. Smith because she's caught the flu
before.
/.Bandwagon - Answer-Millions of Americans attend football games, so I should buy a
season pass.
