1. Character sketches.
How do the characters impress you? Refer to the information from the text and make sketches of the following characters.
1) “I”
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2) Petey Bellows
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3) Polly Espy
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2. Identify the fallacies.
1) Match the following fallacies.
a. Drawing a conclusion from an unqualified generalization: _____
b. Basing a general conclusion on too few instances or facts: _____
c. Concluding that because one event occurs after another, the first event must be the cause of the second event: _____
d. Drawing a conclusion from two contradictory premises: _____
e. Basing a logical argument on an appeal to someone’s emotions: _____
f. Drawing an invalid conclusion by making a comparison to something: _____
g. Drawing a conclusion from a hypothesis that is not true: _____
h. Arguing against someone’s ideas by attacking the person who holds them: _____
2) Name the following fallacies.
a. “A man applies for a job. When the boss asks him what his qualifications are, the man began to sigh. He explains that he has a wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple, the children have no food to eat, no clothes to wear, no shoes on their feet, there are no beds in the basement, no coal in the cellar, and winter is coming.” _____
b. “Listen, darling. We’ve been going out for five days now. We’ve been getting along really well. I think it is clear that we are well matched.” _____
c. “Let’s not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it rains.”_____
d. “Two men are in a debate. The first one gets up and says, ‘My opponent is a notorious liar. You can’t believe a word he is going to say.’” _____
e. “So don’t you think you owe me something? I mean, if I had never come along, you never would have learned about fallacies.” _____
f. “If God can do anything, can He make a stone so heavy that He can’t lift it?” _____
g. “Students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during an examination. After all, surgeons have X rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them while building a house.” _____
h. “You can’t take these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school have nothing to do with real life.” _____