Logical fallacies quiz

Question 1

What is a hasty generalization?

Answer 1

An argument in which someone makes a broad claim based on too small of a sample size

Question 2

What is an ad hominem fallacy?

Answer 2

refers to attacking the person rather than his/her argument

Question 3

What is circular reasoning?

Answer 3

Repeating the claim as evidence to the claim

Question 4

What is a red herring?

Answer 4

When a speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion

Question 5

What is a straw man fallacy?

Answer 5

When the speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute the opponents view point

Question 6

What is a faulty analogy?

Answer 6

Result on an analogy which is vulnerable because it is susceptible to change that 2 things are not conparable

Question 7

What is a false dilemma?

Answer 7

Also called either/or, where the speaker presents only 2 extreme options as the only possible choices