This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Negative prefixes: A) Dis-, im-, in-, ir-.,. B) Is-, less-, ing. C) Ly-, ed-, un-. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dis-, im-, in-, ir-.,. 2. A process that results from a sound becoming more like another nearby sound in terms of one or more of its phonetic characteristics. A) Epenthesis. B) Dissimilation. C) Assimilation. D) Metathesis. E) Deletion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assimilation. 3. What does the prefix super-mean? A) Technique. B) Superior. C) Over; greater. D) Sympathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Over; greater. 4. What does the prefix ortho-mean? A) Having. B) Straight. C) Disease; feeling. D) Study of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Straight. 5. Can we add a prefix to derived adjectives that have been formed by morphological rules? A) Yes, we can. B) No, we cannot. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, we can. 6. Which prefix means again or repeat; back or backwards? A) Mis-. B) Trans-. C) Re-. D) Pre-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Re-. 7. Which of the following words does not use the suffix "-less" meaning without? A) Thoughtless. B) Hopeless. C) Bless. D) Spotless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bless. 8. What do you call a person with very large ears? A) Macrocosmic. B) Macrology. C) Macrodont. D) Macrotous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macrotous. 9. Prefixes and 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. 10. Which word means "causing a lot of damage or harm" ? A) Brittle. B) Spheres. C) Devastating. D) Severe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Devastating. 11. Changing the syntactic category of the item to which it is attached A) Category extension. B) Clipped form. C) Root creation. D) Derivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derivation. 12. In derivation, the affix can be only be a suffix A) True. B) False. C) None of the above. D) It depends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Which prefix means "Speak or Tell" ? A) Re-. B) -ology. C) Un-. D) Dict-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dict-. 14. Choose the bound morpheme: A) Tiger. B) At. C) And. D) Im-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Im-. 15. What is the root for the word 'vivisection'? A) Section. B) Ion. C) Sect. D) Viv. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sect. 16. What does morphology do? A) It takes care of phonemes. B) It isn't in the text. C) It takes care of morphemes. D) Research about syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It takes care of morphemes. 17. What does the prefix sub-mean? A) Far. B) Under. C) Land; earth. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under. 18. What is the meaning of homographs? A) Same sound, same spelling but different meanings. B) Different sound but same spelling. C) Different spelling, different meaning but same sound. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different sound but same spelling. 19. The root word PORT means A) To study. B) To hold. C) To write. D) To carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To carry. 20. The morphology of English unlike that of other languages is: A) Simple. B) Difficult. C) The most complicated. D) No one would understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 21. What is the meaning of the root word:struct A) To build. B) Look at or observe. C) To bend/bent. D) To break. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To bend/bent. 22. Find the verb in this sentence:Ms. D and Ms. Kat worked so hard on your test-review. A) Worked. B) Ms. D/ Ms. Kat. C) Your. D) So hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worked. 23. What does the prefix DE mean? A) To break or burst. B) Down, off, away, completely. C) Before. D) Not, opposite of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down, off, away, completely. 24. What is the term for a morpheme that changes the tense of a verb? A) Free morpheme. B) Inflectional morpheme. C) Root morpheme. D) Derivational morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflectional morpheme. 25. Can stand on their own as independent words A) Allomorphs. B) Free Morphemes. C) Bound Morphemes. D) Inflectional Morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Morphemes. 26. Type of inflection indicates present participle / progressive is ..... A) She never tidies her bedroom. B) It is Lala's boardgame. C) My grandpa sharpened the knives. D) I am shouting angrily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I am shouting angrily. 27. A derivational morpheme ..... A) Does not occur "inside" any inflectional affixes. B) Does not change the part of speech or the basic meaning of a word. C) Makes a new word from old ones. D) Makes an old word from new ones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Makes a new word from old ones. 28. Which of the following would be considered a class changing derivational morpheme? A) -ify in solidify. B) Un-in unhappy. C) -est in oldest. D) Un-in undo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ify in solidify. 29. What does the prefix tele-mean? A) Far. B) Breathe. C) Land; earth. D) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Far. 30. The suffix 'able' means: A) Study of. B) Doing. C) Possible. D) Can't. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Possible. 31. Placenta and pericarp both are edible in A) Banana. B) Potato. C) Tomato. D) Apple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tomato. 32. The committee chair sat in the center chair. A) Category extension. B) Acronym. C) Blend. D) Clipped form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Category extension. 33. What does the prefix "geo" mean? A) Around. B) Sun. C) Sky. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 34. What is the primary function of lead in electrocardiography (ECG)? A) To measure blood pressure. B) To assess lung function. C) To monitor brain waves. D) To record electrical activity of the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To record electrical activity of the heart. 35. Which word means "round objects" ? A) Devastating. B) Movement. C) Brittle. D) Spheres. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spheres. 36. What is common between the thorn of Bougainvillea and tendril of cucurbits (cucumber, pumpkin)? Select the most appropriate answer. A) They have nothing in common. B) Both grow on stems. C) Both are modified axillary buds. D) Both are modified leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both are modified axillary buds. 37. The apex of root is protected by the A) Root cap. B) Root hair. C) Cells present in the region of maturation. D) Meristematic cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Root cap. 38. In the sentence 'They have been working hard', the auxiliary verbs are: A) Have been. B) Been working. C) They have. D) Working hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have been. 39. In the word 'cats', what is the function of the morpheme '-s'? A) To indicate tense. B) To change the meaning. C) To show plurality. D) To form a new word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To show plurality. 40. Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme "past tense" ? A) Must. B) Waits. C) Sitting. D) Are. E) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waits. 41. Are all Inflectional Affixes suffixes? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 42. What type of morpheme is the suffix 'less' in the word 'thoughtless'? A) An inflectional morpheme. B) A derivational morpheme. C) A lexical morpheme. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A derivational morpheme. 43. Using context clues, determine which word with a suffix best completes the sentence:The school's Fall ..... has a collection of folk songs about Halloween and Thanksgiving. A) Musical. B) Talented. C) Annual. D) Seasonal. E) Showy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seasonal. 44. Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme? A) Happy. B) Run. C) Dog. D) Un-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Un-. 45. Which suffix indicates a process or action? A) -ment. B) -ness. C) -less. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ment. 46. Sweet potato is homologous to: A) Colocasia. B) Potato. C) Turnip. D) Ginger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turnip. 47. What feature(s) does a compound have? A) Phonological feature. B) Syntactic feature. C) Semantic feature. D) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are correct. 48. What does contamination mean? A) Slow. B) Pollution. C) Able to contain items. D) Cleanliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 49. Is Hunt free or bound? A) Free. B) Bound. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free. 50. What does "form" mean? A) To Carry. B) To Bend. C) To Shape or Mold. D) To Build. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Shape or Mold. 51. Full of leaves; something that has a lot of leaves A) Dirty. B) Tasty. C) Smoky. D) Leafy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leafy. 52. The stem develops from A) Hypocotyl. B) Plumule. C) Epicotyl. D) Radicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plumule. 53. What does the morpheme 'tele-' mean? A) Close or near. B) Distant or far. C) Quick or fast. D) Small or tiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distant or far. 54. There are two related terms are used in morphology: A) Types and colours. B) Concepts and definitions. C) Words and phrases. D) Lexeme and word-form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lexeme and word-form. 55. What does biography mean? A) Spending a lifetime writing. B) A story told with illustrations and photographs. C) A written story about a person's life. D) Something written in two sections. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A written story about a person's life. 56. Which is NOT an example of derivational morpheme? A) Friend-Friendly. B) Friend-Friendship. C) Friend-Unfriendly. D) Friend-Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friend-Friends. 57. What do the suffixes ous, ious and eous mean? A) Possessing the qualities of. B) Under, from below. C) With, thoroughly. D) State of, condition of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Possessing the qualities of. 58. What part of the leaf does gas exchange? A) Vein. B) Cuticle. C) Guard Cell. D) Stoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stoma. 59. Which of the following is a morpheme that can stand alone as a word? A) Bound morpheme. B) Prefix. C) Suffix. D) Free morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free morpheme. 60. The ending-er and-est of comparatives and superlatives belong to: A) Function morphemes. B) Prefixes. C) Derivational morphemes. D) Inflectional morphemes. 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