WGU EKO1 D256|Critical Thinking Reason and
Evidence: Objective Assessment| Questions with
Correct Answers
1. Blake lives in Hawaii, so she must spend her weekends surfing.
Which two statements accurately summarize the argument?
Choose 2 answers
A. The argument includes a single premise.
B. The argument includes a single conclusion.
C. The argument would need to be mapped using a tree diagram
D. The argument includes conjoint support
2. Which is an example of a proposition?
A. Get me some food to eat.
B. The grass is green in color,
C. Where is the study table kept?
D. Let us go to a birthday party
3. Which statement is a non-proposition
A. Do not work on that essay.
B. The Earth is Nat.
C. Red is a primary color.
D. The Sun is a star,
4. What is the key feature of a simple proposition?
A. Truth value depends on its parts
B. Contains multiple propositions
C. An internal structure
D. No internal structure
5. Which is a simple proposition?
A. I am a bird or I am a human.
B. Empathy should be practiced by everyone.
C. The person had cake, but did not enjoy it.
D. Either I am smart, or they are fools and do not understand the issue.
6. All bears are wild Smokey is a bear. Therefore. Smokey is wild
.Which term describes fins argument?
A. Inductive
B. Deductive
C. invalid
D. Abductive
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, 7. A student states:’’ Road A is straight. Road B is winding, Roads A and B intersect.’’
Which term describes this type of argument?
A. Non-argument
B. True argument
C. Inductive argument
D. Invalid argument
8. A professor at logic stated un arithmetic argument can be valid or invalid because of the
structure of the argument? They gave an example of 1 + 1 = 2, 4 - 2 = 2 hence, 1 + 1 =4-2
What structure represents the premises?
A. A+C = B,D + B= C
B. A +B= C,B+ D = F
C. A+B = C,D+E = F
D. A +B= C,D+E= C
9. I am tall, than I am last / am fast Therefore, I am tall
Which type of logic error is this an example of?
Begging the question
Affirming the consequent
Denying the antecedent
The fallacy fallacy
10. Which kind of fallacy arises when the premise of an argument presupposes the truth of the
conclusion, rather than providing evidence for it?
A. Genetic
B. Red Heming
C. Begging the question
D. Straw man
11. Two friends discussed pets and made two statements
Friend 1. "More people I know have dogs than any other pets, so dogs are the most popular
pets."
Frend 2 The argument relies on the fallacy of anecdotal evidence to support this claim, so I can’t
be correct that dogs ere popular pets.
Which type of fallacy is Frand 2 committing?
A. Hasty generalization fallacy
B. Straw man fallacy
C. Bandwagon fallacy
D. The fallacy-fallacy
12. Some penguins live on Antarctica; therefore penguins are not birds."
Which type of fallacy is occurring in the above given scenario?
A. False dilemmas
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Evidence: Objective Assessment| Questions with
Correct Answers
1. Blake lives in Hawaii, so she must spend her weekends surfing.
Which two statements accurately summarize the argument?
Choose 2 answers
A. The argument includes a single premise.
B. The argument includes a single conclusion.
C. The argument would need to be mapped using a tree diagram
D. The argument includes conjoint support
2. Which is an example of a proposition?
A. Get me some food to eat.
B. The grass is green in color,
C. Where is the study table kept?
D. Let us go to a birthday party
3. Which statement is a non-proposition
A. Do not work on that essay.
B. The Earth is Nat.
C. Red is a primary color.
D. The Sun is a star,
4. What is the key feature of a simple proposition?
A. Truth value depends on its parts
B. Contains multiple propositions
C. An internal structure
D. No internal structure
5. Which is a simple proposition?
A. I am a bird or I am a human.
B. Empathy should be practiced by everyone.
C. The person had cake, but did not enjoy it.
D. Either I am smart, or they are fools and do not understand the issue.
6. All bears are wild Smokey is a bear. Therefore. Smokey is wild
.Which term describes fins argument?
A. Inductive
B. Deductive
C. invalid
D. Abductive
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, 7. A student states:’’ Road A is straight. Road B is winding, Roads A and B intersect.’’
Which term describes this type of argument?
A. Non-argument
B. True argument
C. Inductive argument
D. Invalid argument
8. A professor at logic stated un arithmetic argument can be valid or invalid because of the
structure of the argument? They gave an example of 1 + 1 = 2, 4 - 2 = 2 hence, 1 + 1 =4-2
What structure represents the premises?
A. A+C = B,D + B= C
B. A +B= C,B+ D = F
C. A+B = C,D+E = F
D. A +B= C,D+E= C
9. I am tall, than I am last / am fast Therefore, I am tall
Which type of logic error is this an example of?
Begging the question
Affirming the consequent
Denying the antecedent
The fallacy fallacy
10. Which kind of fallacy arises when the premise of an argument presupposes the truth of the
conclusion, rather than providing evidence for it?
A. Genetic
B. Red Heming
C. Begging the question
D. Straw man
11. Two friends discussed pets and made two statements
Friend 1. "More people I know have dogs than any other pets, so dogs are the most popular
pets."
Frend 2 The argument relies on the fallacy of anecdotal evidence to support this claim, so I can’t
be correct that dogs ere popular pets.
Which type of fallacy is Frand 2 committing?
A. Hasty generalization fallacy
B. Straw man fallacy
C. Bandwagon fallacy
D. The fallacy-fallacy
12. Some penguins live on Antarctica; therefore penguins are not birds."
Which type of fallacy is occurring in the above given scenario?
A. False dilemmas
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