1) I have a right to speak. What is right ought to be done. So I ought to speak. a) red herring b) Equivocation c) strawman d) False cause 2) You can hardly blame President Clinton for having extramarital affairs. Many presidents, when faced with similar situations, have yielded to the same temptations. a) red herring b) Ecquivocation c) strawman d) False cause 3) How can you possibly believe in evolution? That would mean that you believe that an elephant evolved from a mouse, and that’s just ridiculous. a) Appeal to authority b) strawman c) Equivocation d) Bandwagon 4) I’m not a doctor, but I play a doctor on TV, and I wouldn’t dream of using anything but Tylenol for my toughest headaches. a) Ad hominem  b) Appeal to ignorance c) strawman  d) Appeal to an inappropriate authority 5) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, look at the bloody clothes, the murder weapon. Imagine the helpless screams of the victim. Such a crime deserves no verdict except guilty, guilty! a) red herring b) strawman c) Bandwagon d) False cause 6) You’re a vegetarian? You do realize that Hitler was a vegetarian, too? a) Equivocation b) red herring c) Genetic Fallacy d) Appeal to ignorance

Quiz 3 Critical Thinking Fallacies AAP

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