Name: _______________________ Date: ________________

Section: ______________________ Score: _______________

I. FACT VS. OPINION (Critical Thinking)

Directions: Analyze the following statements. Write F if it is FACT and O if it is OPINION. Write your

answer before the number.

________1. According to the latest survey, families are purchasing more household items on credit.

________2. You can hear all the news you need to know from the BBC Radio 1 news team.

________3. The professor argues that the effect of carbon emissions on the surrounding environment
will only get worse.

________4. The research team has discovered a new method for conducting this chemical analysis.

________5. The latest poll shows a marked increase in employee dissatisfaction.

________6. I think public opinion will change over time.

________7. This book is an enjoyable story of life in a small village.

________8. The use of computers at the college has increased and the stationery budget has doubled in
the last few years.

II. Multiple Choice: Choice the letter of the correct answer.

9. It is an appeal to emotion in which someone tries to win support for an argument by exploiting his or
her opponents feeling of pity or guilt.

a. Appeal to pity

b. Appeal to ignorance

c. Appeal to Tradition

d. Against the Person

10. What is the type of appeal used authority to justify the preposition?

a. Appeal to pity

b. Appeal to ignorance

c. Appeal to authority

d. Against the Person

11. You can't speak French. I can’t speak French. Carla can't speak French; therefore, nobody in this
school can speak French.

a. Hasty generalization

b. Fallacy of Division

c. Fallacy of Composition

12. Charles is a terrible person, therefore anything Charles says must be wrong.

a. Appeal to pity

b. Appeal to ignorance

c. Appeal to authority

d. Against the Person

13. This occurs when an idea that has not been proven false must likely be true.

a. Ad Hominen

b. Association (Guilt by) Fallacy

c. Argument from Ignorance

14. This is where someone in authority is quoted or used to support the argument. This also can apply to
other types of "appeals" such as celebrity or the common folk, or even an anonymous source.

a. Appeal to pity

b. Appeal to ignorance

c. Appeal to authority

d. Against the Person

15. “I’m sure you want to have an i phone. Almost 80% of your schoolmates are using it.”

a. Argumentum ad Tradition “Appeal to Tradition”

b. Argumentum ad Populum “Appeal to people”

c. Argumentum and Ignorantiam “Appeal to Ignorance”

16. Our neighbor who is a police officer was convicted of being a drug dealer, therefore, all police
officers are drug dealers.

a. Cause and Effect

b. Fallacy of Composition
c. Fallacy of Equivocation
d. Hasty Generalization
17. “Your family is smart, therefore you are smart.”

a. Cause and Effect

b. Fallacy of Division

c. Fallacy of Equivocation

d. Hasty Generalization

18. “TV Patrol is the best news program on TV. If you don’t believe me, I won’t let you watch the TV.

a. Argumentum ad Tradition “Appeal to Tradition”

b. Argumentum ad Populum “Appeal to people”

c. Argumentum and Ignorantiam “Appeal to Ignorance”

d. Argumentum ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)

19. All of us in the family, from our ancestors up to now, are devout Catholics, so it is only right that you
will be baptized as a Catholic.

a. Argumentum and Ignorantiam “Appeal to Ignorance”

b. Argumentum ad Populum “Appeal to people”
c. Argumentum ad Tradition “Appeal to Tradition”
d. Argumentum ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)

20. “How can we believe him when he talks about social distancing, he is a lawyer who is a liar.”

a. Argumentum and Ignorantiam “Appeal to Ignorance”

b. Argumentum ad Populum “Appeal to people”

c. Argumentum ad Hominem “Attacking the Person”

d. Argumentum ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)

21. “Forgive me officer, there are lot of boarders in this apartment including myself. Only the owner

was issued a quarantine pass. We don’t have food, we can’t give our ATM to the owner. That’s why I
went out. So I did not violate the Bayanihan Act Heal as One.”

a. Argumentum and Ignorantiam “Appeal to Ignorance”

b. Argumentum ad Populum “Appeal to people”

c. Argumentum ad Tradition “Appeal to Tradition”

d. Argumentum ad Misercordiam (Appeal to Pity)

22. Premise 1: All mammals have backbones.

Premise 2: Humans are mammals.

Conclusion: Humans have backbones.

a. Deductive
b. Inductive
c. Abductive

23. Data: Every dog I meet is friendly.

Hypothesis: Most dogs are usually friendly.
a. Deductive
b. Inductive
c. Abductive
24. Premise 1: All plants perform photosynthesis.
Premise 2: A cactus is a plant.
Conclusion: A cactus performs photosynthesis.
a. Deductive
b. Inductive
c. Abductive

25. Statement 1: When I went outside this morning

Statement 2: The grass was completely covered with dew.

Conclusion: It must have rained last night.”

a. Deductive

b. Inductive

c. Abductive