QUESTION AND ANSWERS FOR LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING (FALLACY)
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1. Identify the wrong statement from the following about fallacy?
A. Formal fallacies are always invalid.
B. Informal fallacies only detected through analysis of the
contents
C. Formal fallacies are usually with true conclusion.
D. Unacceptability of the premises is one cause of informal fallacies
ANS: C
2. Give your ball otherwise I will call my sister and she will beat you up. what kind of informal fallacy is committed here?
A. The appeal to pity fallacy
B. Appeal to people
C. Appeal to stick
D. Argumentum ad populum
ANS: C
3. Smoking cigarettes can not be all wrong because 65% of white peoples see nothing with it. This kind of fallacy is?
A. Appeal to vanity
B. Appeal to bandwagon
C. Appeal to people
D. Appeal to snobbery
ANS: B
4. Which one is not the form of argument against the person?
A. Ad hominem abusive
B. Ad hominem substantial
C. The tu qouque
D. Argumentum ad misericordium
ANS: D
5. Your argument against chewing chat is wrong because you have told me you were used to chew chat during you were student at University. What argument is this?
A. Ad hominem substantial
B. You too
C. Ad hominem abusive
D. All
ANS: B
6. Developed countries impact through globalization have been detrimentally affecting our economic development . The solution is obvious; We must stop any foreign relationship immediately. Which fallacy do you infer?
A. Fallacy of missing the point
B. Fallacy of straw man
C. Red- herring fallacy
D. Accident fallacy
ANS: A
7. No one has ever proved how curse works, hence I know curse doesn't work. After many years of research no one has been able to prove why cursed people can't become successful. Thus curse does work. For which of the following this example is true?
A. Fallacy committed by appeal to unqualified authority
B. Fallacy committed by appeal to ignorance
C. Fallacy of false cause
D. Converse accident
ANS: B
8. What kind of fallacy is committed when the relationship between premises and conclusion depends on some imagined causal connection which plausibly does not exist.
A. Post Hoc Ergo fallacy
B. The fallacy of false cause
C. Hasty generalization
D. Appeal to ignorance
ANS: B
9. Ato Bonsa’s house which he built last year in Addis Ababa is very big and is painted green and found in kaliti subcity. Dr Samuel’s new house is also very big and found in kaliti subcity. Therefore, probably Dr Samuel’s house is painted green. This fallacy is……..
A. The fallacy of begging question
B. Complex question fallacy
C. The fallacy of false dichotomy
D. The fallacy of weak analogy
ANS: D
10. I believe the president is telling the truth since she says she is telling the truth.
A. The fallacy committed by begging the question
B. The Fallacy committed by loaded question
C. Fallacy of false dichotomy
D. The fallacy of slippery slope
ANS: A
11............. Committed when conclusion depends on the fact that one or more words are used in two different senses in argument.
A. Amphiboly fallacy
B. Equivocational fallacy
C. Fallacies of division
D. All
ANS: B
12. Have you stopped committing corruption? This example statement more or less describes.....
A. The fallacy by begging question
B. The fallacy of complex question
C. Fallacy of false dichotomy
D. Fallacy of suppressed evidence
ANS: B
13. Every component in this picket fence is white. Therefore, the whole fence is white. Which fallacy is this example represents.
A. Fallacy of composition
B. Fallacy of division
C. Amphiboly fallacy
D. Equivocational fallacy
ANS: A
14. Ethiopia is the poor country. Allahmudin is Ethiopian. Therefore Allahmudin is poor. Which fallacy this example can clearly represents.
A. Fallacy of equivocational
B. Fallacy of amphiboly
C. Fallacy of dichotomy
D. Fallacy of division
ANS: D
15. Linguistics fallacies are:
A. Arise from some form of ambiguity
B. Incorrect use of words
C. Grammatical lack of clarity
D. All of the above
ANS: D
16. Problem of peace and security is going to become worsening in Ethiopia. Clearly our policeman are not doing their job these days. Which fallacy do you infer?
A. Fallacy of slippery slope
B. Fallacy of over simplified
C. Fallacy of weak analogy
D. Non causa pro causa fallacy
ANS: B
17. I have met two persons in Hawassa town so far, and they were both nice to me. So, all people I will meet in Hawassa will be nice to me. What type of fallacy do you conclude?
ANS: D
18 Dr Solomon committed fallacy by diverting the attention of the readers by changing to subject to different but sometimes subtly related one?
A. Fallacy of weak induction
B. Appeal to unqualified Authority
C. Red-Herring
D. Appeal to ignorance
ANS: C
19. Kidist! All good employees obey the order from their boss. Hence, you should not refuse when your boss invites you for bed.
A. Straw man fallacy
B. Fallacy of missing point
C. Argument against person
D. Fallacy of accident
ANS: D
20. Which one of the following is not included in Informal fallacy?
A. Fallacies of relevance
B. Fallacies of grammatical analogy
C. Fallacies of presumption
D. Fallacies of ambiguity
E. None of the above
ANS: E
21. A threat by the arguer to the physical or psychological well-being of listener or reader. Which type of informal fallacies is?
A. Appeal to force
B. Appeal to people
C. Appeal to pity
D. Appeal to bandwagon
