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Argumentative Essays Practice Tests

These Grade 11 English practice tests examine claims, thesis statements, reasons, evidence, warrants, counterclaims, organization, fallacies, research, and revision.

Skills covered

  • Developing focused, arguable claims and thesis statements for a defined audience
  • Connecting reasons, evidence, warrants, source credibility, relevance, sufficiency, and synthesis
  • Organizing introductions, body paragraphs, transitions, counterclaims, rebuttals, and conclusions
  • Recognizing false dilemmas, hasty generalizations, ad hominem attacks, circular reasoning, straw man arguments, and other fallacies
  • Researching, citing, revising, and editing evidence-based argumentative writing

How to use these practice tests

Identify the writing task, evaluate the claim and evidence, follow the line of reasoning, and choose the response that makes the argument more precise, credible, coherent, and persuasive.

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Grade 11 Argumentative Essays Practice Tests

Practice Grade 11 English questions about argumentative claims, thesis statements, evidence, reasoning, counterclaims, organization, fallacies, research, and revision.

Choose the best answer. Evaluate claims, evidence, reasoning, organization, audience, counterclaims, and revision choices in argumentative writing.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a false dilemma?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Presenting only two options when additional possibilities exist.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A false dilemma oversimplifies a complex issue by treating two choices as the only possible alternatives.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Presenting only two options when additional possibilities exist.

A false dilemma oversimplifies a complex issue by treating two choices as the only possible alternatives.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a hasty generalization?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Drawing a broad conclusion from too little or unrepresentative evidence.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A hasty generalization mistakes a small, unusual, or biased set of observations for sufficient proof of a broad claim.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Drawing a broad conclusion from too little or unrepresentative evidence.

A hasty generalization mistakes a small, unusual, or biased set of observations for sufficient proof of a broad claim.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an ad hominem fallacy?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Attacking the person instead of addressing the person's argument.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: An ad hominem distracts from the reasoning by targeting an opponent's character, identity, or circumstances.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Attacking the person instead of addressing the person's argument.

An ad hominem distracts from the reasoning by targeting an opponent's character, identity, or circumstances.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

What is circular reasoning?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Using the claim as its own evidence or assuming what the argument needs to prove.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: Circular reasoning does not provide independent support because the conclusion is already built into the premise.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Using the claim as its own evidence or assuming what the argument needs to prove.

Circular reasoning does not provide independent support because the conclusion is already built into the premise.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a slippery slope argument?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Claiming that one action will inevitably lead to extreme consequences without adequate support.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A slippery slope becomes fallacious when it assumes an unsupported series of consequences is unavoidable.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Claiming that one action will inevitably lead to extreme consequences without adequate support.

A slippery slope becomes fallacious when it assumes an unsupported series of consequences is unavoidable.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a straw man fallacy?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Misrepresenting an opponent's position so it is easier to attack.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A straw man replaces the actual position with an exaggerated or distorted version and then attacks that substitute.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Misrepresenting an opponent's position so it is easier to attack.

A straw man replaces the actual position with an exaggerated or distorted version and then attacks that substitute.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an appeal to popularity?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Claiming that an idea is true or right because many people accept it.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: Popularity does not by itself establish truth, quality, fairness, or effectiveness.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Claiming that an idea is true or right because many people accept it.

Popularity does not by itself establish truth, quality, fairness, or effectiveness.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a red herring?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Introducing an irrelevant issue to distract from the argument.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A red herring shifts attention away from the actual question instead of addressing the claim or evidence.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Introducing an irrelevant issue to distract from the argument.

A red herring shifts attention away from the actual question instead of addressing the claim or evidence.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a post hoc fallacy?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Assuming that because one event followed another, the first caused the second.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: Sequence alone does not prove causation; other causes and evidence must be considered.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Assuming that because one event followed another, the first caused the second.

Sequence alone does not prove causation; other causes and evidence must be considered.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an appeal to ignorance?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Claiming something is true because it has not been disproved, or false because it has not been proved.

  1. Identify the argument task: Determine the claim, audience, evidence, reasoning, organization, or revision skill being tested.
  2. Apply the writing principle: A lack of proof is not automatically proof of the opposite position.
  3. Check the response: The correct answer is Claiming something is true because it has not been disproved, or false because it has not been proved.

A lack of proof is not automatically proof of the opposite position.

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