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.” _____