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Fifteen sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in classrooms and everyday life: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.

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Practice deck · part of Philosophy & Psychology · written against: 150 words of knowledge, ethics, belief, the mind and everyday reasoning; not clinical advice. Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. Hester spends her weekends handing out free bike lights to strangers and lobbying the council for more crosswalks; her teenage cousins, half teasing, call her the town ______.

    A) Good Samaritan
    B) do-gooder
    C) know-it-all
    D) role model
    B) do-gooder

    Someone always out to help strangers and reform the town, and teased by family for it, is a do-gooder. Good Samaritan is tempting, since she helps strangers, but the name simply praises someone who helps people in need, with none of the do-gooder's reforming zeal or teasing edge.
    Ethics & Values
  2. The Druze faith teaches a form of ______ in which, as a person dies, the soul passes at once into the body of a baby being born.

    A) nihilism
    B) mysticism
    C) deism
    D) reincarnation
    D) reincarnation

    A soul moving from one life to the next at death, in a fresh body, is reincarnation. Deism is tempting, since it is also a faith, but deism's God leaves the world alone once it is made, and deism is not a teaching about souls entering new bodies.
    Beliefs & Schools
  3. Because she treats a ninety-eight on a test as a failure and won't hand in a lab report with a single crossed-out word, Wilhelmina's friends call her a ______.

    A) perfectionist
    B) quick study
    C) wallflower
    D) sage
    A) perfectionist

    Holding her work to a flawless standard, so that even a ninety-eight feels like a failure, marks a perfectionist. Quick study is tempting, since she is a strong student, but the name means a fast learner, which says nothing about her standards.
    Mind & Self
  4. Staying up past ten on Friday, Ivo's grandmother warned, would lead to sleeping through Saturday, then unfinished homework, then a lifetime of laziness, a ______ that made the whole family laugh.

    A) false dichotomy
    B) snap judgment
    C) slippery slope
    D) gray area
    C) slippery slope

    One small step said to lead inevitably to worse ones is a slippery slope. False dichotomy is tempting, but that offers only two options, and Ivo's grandmother predicts a chain, not a choice.
    Thinking Errors
  5. A ______ by temperament, Odalys hiked six hundred miles of mountain trail by herself and turned down every offer to join a group along the way.

    A) wallflower
    B) black sheep
    C) lone wolf
    D) devil's advocate
    C) lone wolf

    Preferring to act alone, and turning down every group, marks a lone wolf. Wallflower is tempting, but a wallflower is a shy guest who hangs back and watches at a party; Odalys simply chose to go it alone.
    Groups & Influence
  6. Clean the garage by noon and we go to the lake; leave it messy and you lose your phone for the weekend. Dad's ______ offer had the garage spotless by eleven.

    A) black-and-white
    B) Machiavellian
    C) carrot-and-stick
    D) holier-than-thou
    C) carrot-and-stick

    Motivating with both a lure (the lake) and a threat (no phone) is carrot-and-stick. Black-and-white is tempting, given the two clear outcomes, but it would only call the terms clear-cut or sort things into good or bad; it does not name the use of reward and threat.
    Habits & Learning

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