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Propaganda Quiz #1
Directions: Match the propaganda technique with the correct advertisement.
Bandwagon
Logical Fallacies
Sense Appeal
Testimonial
Glittering Generalities
Statistics
Plain Folks
Name Calling
Card Stacking
Fear
Humor
Transfer
1. While watching your favorite TV show, President Obama interrupts to
share important information with you while standing in front of an
American flag.
a. Bandwagon
c. Glittering Generalities
b. Transfer
d. Humor
2. The subway commercial comes on, causing you to sing along to, “$5
foot long!”
a. Humor
c. Statistics
b. Testimonial
d. Sense Appeal
3. You read an article in the newspaper that claims that everyone should
buy more stamps in order to help the US Post Office.
a. Bandwagon
c. Name Calling
b. Sense Appeal
d. Logical Fallacies
4. While reading your new magazine, you see an ad that states that
everyone enjoys eating out; however, eating out makes you gain
weight, so everyone that eats out must gain weight.
a. Sense Appeal
c. Logical Fallacies
b. Testimonial
d. Fear
5. When you enter SS class, you see a sign that has Uncle Sam on it
proclaiming that “the US needs you to prove you’re a good American!
Join the Armed Forces.”
a. Logical Fallacies
c. Glittering Generalities
b. Testimonial
d. Name Calling
6. During a political speech, you hear your congressman refer to those
people that want to limit gun control as communists.
a. Name Calling
c. Sense Appeal
b. Humor
d. Statistics
7. An ad trying to recruit young adults to join the military shows a
picture of New York after 9/11, and states that in order to protect
our country; you need to join the Armed Forces.
a. Humor
c. Glittering Generalities
b. Fear
d. Transfer
8. You see a commercial for a new clothing line that is being created by
your favorite movie star. In the ad, he/she is modeling the clothes.
a. Humor
c. Fear
b. Sense Appeal
d. Testimonial
9. While visiting your friends in Georgia, you notice a lot of people taking
pictures of someone in a nearby Starbucks. As you move closer, you
see Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner leave the store.
a. Sense Appeal
c. Testimonial
b. Plain Folks
d. Glittering Generalities
10. During a commercial break, you watch a commercial that makes you
laugh.
a. Fear
c. Plain Folks
b. Humor
d. Transfer
11. While reading about a new video game that has come out, you can
barely make out at the bottom of the page the caveat that the game
may only be purchased online.
a. Humor
c. Card Stacking
b. Sense Appeal
d. Humor
12. While reading an ad for Poptarts, you learn that Poptarts only have 5
grams of fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol and has 8 vitamins and
minerals.
a. Humor
c. Glittering Generalities
b. Transfer
d. Statistics