INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Every member of the Viking Society was born in Norway. Therefore, the Viking Society was born in Norway

A) No fallacy.

B) Complex question.

C) Composition.

D) Hasty generalization.

E) Division.


C

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