Ad Hominem Fallacy

Ad Hominem Fallacy

10th Grade

15 Qs

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Ad Hominem Fallacy

Ad Hominem Fallacy

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Sally: You should stop eating meat. You're unhealthy and murdering animals.

Ruth: Of course you'd say that; you're a hippie. Everybody knows that hippies are crazy tree-hugging animal lovers.

Ad Hominem

Bandwagon

Slippery Slope

Strawman

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don’t even have a job.

Ad hominem

Slippery slope

false dilemma

circular reasoning

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A mother says that she does not trust her pediatrician because she can't even style her hair nicely.

Over-generalization

Ad Hominem

Slippery Slope

Either/Or

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

this term refers to the diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker; Latin for "against the man"

ad populum

appeal to false authority

ad hominem

circular reasoning

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Attacks the arguer instead of the argument

Slippery slope

False dilemma

Ad hominem/personal attack/attack the man

straw man

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"Bernie Saunders wouldn't make a good president because he looks like a sad muppet."

Stacking the deck/Bias

ad hominem

bandwagon

Tu Quoque

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of an Ad Hominem fallacy?

Criticizing someone's argument based on their appearance

Providing evidence to support a claim

Using statistics to back up an argument

Discussing the merits of an argument

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