This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the prefix word sub mean? A) With, thoroughly. B) State of, condition of. C) Possessing the qualities of. D) Under, from below. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Under, from below. 2. In the context of lead morphology, what does the term 'crystal habit' refer to? A) The color of lead compounds. B) The solubility of lead. C) The density of lead. D) The shape of lead crystals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The shape of lead crystals. 3. Select the sentence that uses the word audible correctly. A) Audible is moving tomorrow. B) The car's audible inreases in speed. C) Silence is audible. D) The audible train is very loud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The audible train is very loud. 4. Suffixes are added to words to change their meaning. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Basic unit in the eye of cockroach/Insect is A) Retina. B) Ommatidium. C) Corneal facet. D) Rhabdome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ommatidium. 6. What does immunity mean? A) Slow. B) People in the same location. C) Resistance, defense, guard. D) Increase in speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resistance, defense, guard. 7. Affixes are considered as bound morpheme. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 8. Lead morphology is often studied in conjunction with which other scientific field? A) Toxicology. B) Geology. C) Physics. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 9. A free morpheme: A) Costs nothing. B) Is a word. C) Is easy to spell. D) Has escaped captivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is a word. 10. Bound morphemes can stand alone. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Which of the following words contains a derivational morpheme? A) Played. B) Happiness. C) Running. D) Cats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happiness. 12. What does the prefix 'tele-' mean? A) Within. B) Close. C) Far. D) Near. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Far. 13. The prefix ir-means A) Not. B) Full. C) Today. D) Able to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 14. Leafbase is swollen to form pulvinus in- A) Some cycads. B) Some monocots. C) Some crucifers. D) Some leguminous plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some leguminous plants. 15. Which of the following words means full of wonder? A) Wondy. B) Wonderful. C) Waffle. D) Woeful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wonderful. 16. In "audible" , the center morpheme "audi" is a ..... A) Bound base. B) Stem. C) Free base. D) Base. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bound base. 17. Petiole when becomes green, flat and tend to function as leaf, is called as A) Cladophyll. B) Cladode. C) Phyllode. D) Phylloclade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phyllode. 18. What is the pair of phrases which are homophobic? A) Allomorph. B) Deletion. C) Morpheme. D) Oronyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oronyms. 19. What is the meaning of the root word aud-? A) To navigate. B) To see. C) To hear/listen. D) To become. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To hear/listen. 20. In pea flower, the stamens are A) Diadelphous. B) Monoadelphous. C) Free. D) Polyadelphous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diadelphous. 21. There are 18 Inflections in English. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 22. What word is the adjective in the following sentence? The clumsy horse trotted slowly down the track. A) Horse. B) Clumsy. C) Trotted. D) Slowly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clumsy. 23. When the margins of sepals or petals overlap one another without any particular direction, the condition is termed as A) Twisted. B) Vexillary. C) Imbricate. D) Valvate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imbricate. 24. This process forms a word by removing what is mistaken for an affix A) Blend. B) Proper Name. C) Back Formation. D) Acronym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Back Formation. 25. What statement is true about inflectional morpheme? A) It must not appear in suffix in English. B) Inflectional morphemes are bound morphemes which modify noun number or verb tenses without modifying the base of the word. C) There are 7 types of inflectional morphemes. D) The comparative-er is not an inflectional morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflectional morphemes are bound morphemes which modify noun number or verb tenses without modifying the base of the word. 26. What are morphemes? A) The smallest independent unit of language. B) Create a word that is completely different from its base. C) Form new words by combining to or more existing words. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The smallest independent unit of language. 27. Morphology studies ..... A) Word pronunciation. B) The meaning of words. C) Word formation. D) Sentence formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word formation. 28. Which is a bound morpheme? A) Teach. B) Er. C) Tion. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tion. 29. What does the root word "micro" mean in the word "microscope" ? A) Life. B) Small. C) Bad. D) Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small. 30. All are examples of blending except ..... A) Staycation. B) Docudrama. C) Facebook. D) Frenemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Facebook. 31. Thorn of Citrus and Bougainvillea is modified- A) Root. B) Inflorescence. C) Leaf. D) Stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stem. 32. What does the root tech mean? A) Over; greater. B) Craft; skill. C) Breathe. D) Far. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Craft; skill. 33. What is the term for a morpheme that changes the grammatical function of a word? A) Bound morpheme. B) Inflectional morpheme. C) Derivational morpheme. D) Free morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflectional morpheme. 34. Arrangement of flowers on floral axis is called- A) Phyllotaxy. B) Inflorescence. C) Angiology. D) Placentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflorescence. 35. In a flower the ovary is inferior. Which of the following options supports this statement.a) Flower is hypogynousb) Flower is Epigynousc) It is found in guava and cucumberd) It is found in mustard and Brinjal A) A and c. B) B and d. C) B and c. D) A and d. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B and c. 36. In what ecosystem would you find a fish with these features:fusiform body, countershading, terminal mouth and a crescent shaped tail. This fish actively hunts for prey A) Rocky intertidal. B) Open ocean. C) Estuary/salt marsh. D) Mangrove forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Open ocean. 37. The suffix-ful means A) Happened in the past. B) Full of. C) Not. D) Able to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Full of. 38. What does the root 'graph' mean? A) To write. B) To draw. C) To speak. D) To read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To write. 39. Having a good outcome; favorable A) Beneficiary. B) Beneficial. C) Benevolent. D) Benefit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beneficial. 40. The noisy crowd ..... from the experience of the talk because I couldn't hear him speak. A) Retracted. B) Attracted. C) Detracted. D) Subtracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Detracted. 41. What is the Morphology? A) Morphology is the study of morphemes, which are the smallest significant units of Grammar .,. B) Morphology is a section of the science of language that studies phrases and sentences. C) Morphology is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphology is the study of morphemes, which are the smallest significant units of Grammar .,. 42. Teacher = teach + er. How would you identify the-er in teacher? A) Lexical morpheme. B) Derivational morpheme. C) Functional morpheme. D) Inflectional morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Derivational morpheme. 43. Which of the following is a medicinal plant- A) Tulip. B) Colchicum. C) Asparagus. D) Aloe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aloe. 44. The process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using it as a new word such as a verb is called ..... A) Compounding. B) Backformation. C) Clipping. D) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Backformation. 45. What does the prefix para-mean? A) Fear. B) Foot. C) Sound. D) Beside; related. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beside; related. 46. What is the process that results in the insertion of a sound into a word? A) Deletion. B) Metathesis. C) Dissimilation. D) Epenthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epenthesis. 47. What does "struc/struct" mean? A) To Send. B) To Flex. C) To Disagree. D) To Build. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To Build. 48. Never change the form class of the words or morphemes to which they are attached. A) Allomorphs. B) Free Morphemes. C) Bound Morphemes. D) Inflectional Morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inflectional Morphemes. 49. It is a word formed from the first letters(s) of each word in a phrase A) Acronym. B) Back Formation. C) Blend. D) Proper Name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acronym. 50. The morpheme that determines the category of the entire word is called the ..... A) Base. B) Root. C) Stem. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Head. 51. Where to you find a prefix? A) At the beginning of a word. B) In the middle of a word. C) At the end of the word. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the beginning of a word. 52. Which suffix means "full of" or "having the quality of" ? A) -ive. B) -ful. C) -y. D) -ous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ous. 53. To neglect or be careless. A) Hopeful. B) Disrespectful. C) Disregardful. D) Harmful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disregardful. 54. What does the root word port mean? A) To carry. B) Face, forehead, foremost part. C) Life. D) To write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To carry. 55. When do you use the suffix-er and-ier A) To compare 2 things. B) To compare more than two things. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To compare 2 things. 56. Which of the following is a derivational morpheme? A) -s. B) -ed. C) -ing. D) -ness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ness. 57. The unreliable handy man could not fix the toilet. Find the prefix in the word "Unreliable" A) Reliable. B) Able. C) Un. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Un. 58. Word formation process includes ..... A) Combining process. B) Shortening process. C) Blending and reduplication process. D) All of the above options. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above options. 59. Lexical Morphemes have meaning by themselves while Grammatical Morphemes do not. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. Distinguishing feature of angiospermic family Solanaceae are all, except A) Syncarpous ovary with swollen placenta. B) Synandrous epipetalous stamens. C) Persistent calyx with valvate aestivation. D) Berry or capsule fruits with many endospermous seeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synandrous epipetalous stamens. Next →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 6Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books