fallacy

1. Name: ID: Class Activity: 5
Tick/write the correct answer:
1. My roommate from Maine loves lobster ravioli. Therefore, all people from Maine must love
lobster ravioli. –what type of fallacy does this indicate?
□ Red herring □ hasty generalization □ False Dichotomy
2. Either I keep smoking, or I'll get fat. I don't want to get fat, so I better keep smoking-what type of
fallacy is this?-
□ Red herring □ hasty generalization □ False Dichotomy
3. I am a single parent. If you give me this fine, I will lose my driving license and will be unable to
go to work and my children will starve, therefore please do not give me this fine.-what type of
fallacy is this?-
□ weak analogy □ appeal to authority □ appeal to pity
4. The student committee has presented us with an argument favoring alcohol privileges on
campus. What do the students want? Is it their intention to stay boozed up from the day they
enter as freshmen to the day they graduate? Do they want a chain of bars across the campus?
Such a proposal is ridiculous!—what kind of fallacy is this?
□ Red herring □ hasty generalization □ straw man
5. Water fluoridation affects the brain. Citywide, student’s test scores began to drop five months
after fluoridation began
□ Red herring □ weak analogy □ false cause
6. A commercial claims that a specific brand of cereal is the best way to start the day because
athlete Michael Jordan says that it is what he eats every day for breakfast.
□ Red herring □ appeal to authority □ appeal to pity
7. It is ridiculous to have spent thousands of dollars to rescue those two whales trapped in the
Arctic ice. Why look at all the people trapped in jobs they don’t like-what kind of fallacy?
□ Red herring □ weak analogy □ false cause
8. The mother of a young child tells him to go to bed, and he begins to ask questions, say that he is
hungry, or say that he needs to go to the bathroom-all to avoid bed and distract mom.
□ Red herring □ slippery slope □ false cause
9. We have not lost a game since I got my lucky shoes!
□ Straw man □ false cause □ weak analogy
10.Animal experimentation reduces our respect for life. If we don't respect life, we are likely to be
more and more tolerant of violent acts like war and murder. Soon our society will become a

2. battlefield in which everyone constantly fears for their lives. It will be the end of civilization. To
prevent this terrible consequence, we should make animal experimentation illegal right now.
□ Red herring □Ad hominem □ Slippery slope