Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument."The Federal Reserve Board is normally the Stealth bomber of government agencies, zooming in without warning to raise or lower interest rates and confirming weeks later what action was taken. But last Friday, in an extraordinary pre-emptive strike against a possible surge of inflation, the Federal Reserve Chairman declared that the Central Bank had raised short-term rates that very day."

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


No argument.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. It would be a mistake to provide new gloves to the school's baseball players. In no time the football players will want new equipment. Then the tennis players will want new courts, the hockey players will want a new arena, the swimmers will want a new pool, and the golfers will want their own special course. The costs for these facilities

will go through the roof. A) Composition. B) Equivocation. C) Accident. D) Slippery slope. E) No fallacy.

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Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument.Some of these guys who do Elvis Presley imitations actually pay more for their outfits than Elvis paid for his! Anybody who would spend thousands just so he can spend a few minutes not fooling anybody into thinking he's Elvis is nuts.

What will be an ideal response?

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According to Cornel West, the fundamental crisis in black America is due to

A) too much government assistance. B) too much illegitimacy. C) too much liberal bias. D) too much poverty and too little self-respect.

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What term literally meaning "destruction" describes the Nazi genocide of Jews in World War II?

a. halakhah b. Shoah c. Shema d. Kabbalah

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