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Critical Thinking Week 6 Quiz 2/22/14 12:13 PM 2/22/14 12:40 PM Completed 95 out of 100 points

Time Elapsed 26 minutes out of 2 hours. Instructions This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions and covers the material in the second half of Chapter 9. Be sure you are in Chapter 9 when you take the quiz.
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Question 1 5 out of 5 points White sheep eat more than black sheep (because there are more of them). Therefore, this white sheep eats more than that black sheep. Answer Selected Answer: Division Correct Answer: Division Question 2 5 out of 5 points Professor Glazebrooks's theory about the origin of the Martian craters is undoubtedly true. Rudolph Orkin, the great concert pianist, announced his support of the theory in this morning's newspaper. Answer Selected Answer:

Authority Correct Answer: Authority Question 3 5 out of 5 points All persons act in order that they might get pleasure.Even so-called altruistic persons who help others so much that they do almost nothing for themselves get pleasure out of giving.Otherwise, they wouldn't do it. Suppose a person hits himself over the head with a hammer.He must get pleasure from it, because why else would he do it if he didn't get pleasure from it? Answer Selected Answer: Circular reasoning Correct Answer: Circular reasoning Question 4 5 out of 5 points California condors are rapidly disappearing. This bird is a California condor. Therefore, this bird should disappear any minute now. Answer Selected Answer: Division Correct Answer: Division Question 5 5 out of 5 points If you find yourself paralyzed in bed for a few moments and see little creatures by your bed, you

might conclude that you had experienced some kind of UFO alien abduction. Answer Selected Answer: Extravagant hypothesis Correct Answer: Extravagant hypothesis Question 6 5 out of 5 points Opinion poll question: Do you favor more money for welfare programs, or do you feel we should let people starve on the streets? Answer Selected Answer: Either/Or fallacy Correct Answer: Either/Or fallacy Question 7 5 out of 5 points A line is composed of points. Points have no length. Therefore, a line has no length. Answer Selected Answer: Composition Correct Answer: Composition Question 8 0 out of 5 points

People are driving their cars like maniacs tonight. There must be a full moon. Answer Selected Answer: Composition Correct Answer: Post hoc ergo propter hoc Question 9 5 out of 5 points We know that induction will provide dependable results in the future because it has always worked in the past. Whatever has consistently worked in the past will continue to work in the future, and we know that is true because it has been established by induction. Answer Selected Answer: Circular reasoning Correct Answer: Circular reasoning Question 10 5 out of 5 points On Friday I took Virginia out to dinner. She told me that if I wasn't interested in a serious relationship, I should forget about dating her. On Saturday I took Margie to a film. When we discussed it afterward over a drink, she couldn't understand why I wasn't interested in babies. Women are all alike. All they want is a secure marriage. Answer Selected Answer: Hasty generalization Correct Answer: Hasty generalization

Question 11 5 out of 5 points Every member of the Delta Club is over 70 years old. Therefore, the Delta Club must be over 70 years old. Answer Selected Answer: Composition Correct Answer: Composition Question 12 5 out of 5 points The students attending Strayer University Online come from every one of the fifty states.Rachquette attends Strayer University Online.Therefore, Rachquette comes from everyone of the fifty states. Answer Selected Answer: Division Correct Answer: Division Question 13 5 out of 5 points Karen has just moved in with her boyfriend. She claims that living together before marriage is ethical since everyone is doing it now. Answer Selected Answer: Bandwagon

Correct Answer: Bandwagon Question 14 5 out of 5 points Of course animals have rights. Just look at how powerless they are in comparison with modern humans. Answer Selected Answer: Circular reasoning Correct Answer: Circular reasoning Question 15 5 out of 5 points The Book of Mormon is true because it was written by Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith wrote the truth because he was divinely inspired. We know that Joseph Smith was divinely inspired because the Book of Mormon says that he was, and the Book of Mormon is true. Answer Selected Answer: Circular reasoning Correct Answer: Circular reasoning Question 16 5 out of 5 points The best students make the best grades. Therefore, requiring instructors to give high grades will undoubtedly produce better students. Answer

Selected Answer: Post hoc ergo propter hoc Correct Answer: Post hoc ergo propter hoc Question 17 5 out of 5 points Terrorists from the Middle East have crossed our borders and traveled through the country at will. Obviously the Immigration Service has not been doing its job. Answer Selected Answer: Post hoc ergo propter hoc Correct Answer: Post hoc ergo propter hoc Question 18 5 out of 5 points Each and every brick in the completely brick-faced Wainright Building has a reddish brown color. Therefore, the Wainright Building has a reddish brown color. Answer Selected Answer: No fallacy Correct Answer: No fallacy Question 19 5 out of 5 points Televangelist Jerry Falwell said that God's anger with feminism led to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Given Falwell's closeness to God, we have no alternative than to blame the

feminists for this atrocity. Answer Selected Answer: Authority Correct Answer: Authority Question 20 5 out of 5 points The farmers of our state have asked that we introduce legislation to provide subsidies for soybeans. Unfortunately, we will have to turn down their request. If we give subsidies to the soybean farmers, then the corn and wheat growers will ask for the same thing. Then it will be the cotton growers, citrus growers, truck farmers, and cattle raisers. In the end, the cost will be astronomical. Answer Selected Answer: Slippery slope Correct Answer: Slippery slope