Fallacies And Persuaders Chapter 12 Test Questions & Answers

Chapter 12: Fallacies and Persuaders

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 01

1. Fallacies are often beguiling because they are psychologically persuasive yet…

a. Psychologically sound

b. Morally right

c. Logically correct

d. Logically inadequate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 02

2. The genetic fallacy is arguing that a claim is true or false solely because of its…

a. Premises

b. Origin

c. Analogies

d. Form

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 03

3. The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is called…

a. Division

b. Composition

c. Equivocation

d. Faulty analogy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 04

4. Rejecting a claim by criticizing the person who makes it rather than the claim itself is known as…

a. The ad hominem fallacy

b. The red herring fallacy

c. The tu quoque fallacy

d. The straw man fallacy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 05

5. A type fallacy that argues that a claim must be true (or false) just because the claimant is hypocritical is called…

a. Personal attack

b. Tu quoque

c. Poisoning the well

d. Equivocation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 06

6. The use of nonargumentative, emotion-laden language to influence an audience is called…

a. Manipulation

b. The emotional appeal fallacy

c. Rhetoric

d. Propaganda

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 07

7. In a debate or disagreement, the burden of proof usually rests on the side that…

a. Is winning

b. Makes a negative claim

c. Tries to prove a negative

d. Makes a positive claim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 08

8. The fallacy of deliberately raising an irrelevant issue during an argument is called a(n)…

a. Red herring

b. Appeal to ignorance

c. Straw man

d. Composition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 09

9. The use of a word in two different senses in an argument is known as…

a. Equivocation

b. Argument by analogy

c. Straw man

d. Red herring

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 10

10. Arguing that what is true of the whole of something must also be true of its parts is called…

a. The fallacy of equivocation

b. The fallacy of composition

c. The fallacy of division

d. The straw man fallacy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 11

11. The fallacy of arguing that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole is known as . . .

a. Equivocation

b. Dysphemism

c. Composition

d. Ridicule

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 12

12. This argument—“No one has shown that aliens don’t exist, so they must exist.”—illustrates the fallacy of…

a. The appeal to the person

b. Equivocation

c. The appeal to popularity

d. The appeal to ignorance

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 13

13. Arguing that you are doing something morally wrong is justified because someone else has done the same (or similar) thing is known as the fallacy of…

a. Scare tactics

b. Two wrongs make a right

c. Appeal to pity

d. Straw man

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 14

14. Distorting, weakening, or oversimplifying someone’s position so it can be easily attacked or refuted is called…

a. The red herring fallacy

b. The ad hominem fallacy

c. The straw man fallacy

d. The fallacy of equivocation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 15

15. A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when…

a. It is hypothetical

b. There is good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action

c. There are only two possible results

d. There is no good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another undesirable action

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 16

16. Classifying individuals into groups according to oversimplified or prejudiced attitudes or opinions is known as…

a. Dysphemism

b. Stereotyping

c. Rhetorical definition

d. Straw man

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 17

17. The appeal to popularity is arguing that a claim must be true because…

a. No one has rejected it

b. No one has proven it false

c. A substantial number of people doubt it

d. A substantial number of people believe it

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 18

18. The attempt to establish the conclusion of an argument by using that conclusion as a premise is known as…

a. Red herring

b. Straw man

c. Begging the question

d. Appeal to the person

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 19

19. The use of derision, sarcasm, laughter, or mockery to disparage a person or idea is known as…

a. Innuendo

b. Euphemism

c. Disanalogy

d. Ridicule

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 20

20. The fallacy of asserting that there are only two alternatives to consider when there are actually more than two is called…

a. Hasty generalization

b. False dilemma

c. Straw man

d. The decision-point fallacy

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 01

1. What is the fallacy of begging the question and how can it be used to mislead?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 02

2. Why are appeals to the person fallacious?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 03

3. What is the fallacy of equivocation and how can it be used to persuade an audience that a conclusion is true?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 04

4. Why is an appeal to the masses fallacious?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 05

5. What is the basic pattern of a straw-man argument? How are straw-man arguments sometimes used in debates over church–state separation?