This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Maize grain is a- A) Seed. B) Fruit. C) Flower. D) Inflorescence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruit. 2. In linguistics, what is the term for a morpheme that can stand alone as a word and carries meaning by itself, like "book" or "run" ? A) Suffixes. B) Prefixes. C) Free morpheme. D) Bound morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free morpheme. 3. What does "port" mean? A) To Build. B) To Watch or Look. C) To Write. D) To Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To Carry. 4. After rolling and playing in mud puddles, my dog returned home brown and filthy. What does the word filthy mean? A) Characterized by dirt and filth. B) Characterized by rain and water. C) Characterized by dogs and animals. D) Characterized by home and places. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterized by dirt and filth. 5. What is the definition of the root 'photo'? A) Earth. B) Light. C) Darkness. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light. 6. Which suffix means 'study of'? A) -ness. B) -ology. C) -er. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ology. 7. Which suffix denotes how an action is? A) -ly. B) -ing. C) -s. D) -ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ly. 8. Which of the following words undergo inflection? A) Ensure. B) Unlucky. C) Closure. D) Active. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlucky. 9. "Under the dying tree" is ..... A) A noun phrase. B) A verbal phrase. C) A prepositional phrase. D) An adverbial phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A prepositional phrase. 10. What is the process of adding a prefix or suffix to a word called? A) Compounding. B) Blending. C) Inflection. D) Derivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derivation. 11. A type of abbreviation in which new words are formed from the initial letters of a set of words, and they are pronounced as new single words is called ..... A) Compounding. B) Blending. C) Borrowing. D) Acronyms. E) Clipping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acronyms. 12. Which of the following is NOT an adjective? A) Shell. B) Yellow. C) Old. D) Scary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shell. 13. Siliqua fruit occurs in A) Althaea rosea. B) Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. C) Solanum nigrum. D) Brassica campestris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brassica campestris. 14. Match the word with the definition:To read again A) Reread. B) Inread. C) Preread. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reread. 15. Word formation processes in which words are combined are: A) Compounding and blending. B) Back-formation and clipping. C) Eponyms. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compounding and blending. 16. Inflectional affixes don't have exactly the same meaning in all words they are attached to. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Structures that DO NOT have a common evolutionary origin but are similar in function A) Analogous structures. B) Homologous structures. C) Vestigial structures. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogous structures. 18. Monocarpellary ovary diadelphous androceium and marginal placentation occurs in A) Asteraceae. B) Liliaceae. C) Fabaceae. D) Brassicaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fabaceae. 19. Which best completes the sentence? ..... talk to the teacher after class. A) Students. B) Moby. C) He. D) She. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Students. 20. What do the prefixes IN and IM mean? A) With, thoroughly. B) To look. C) Under, from below. D) In, into, not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In, into, not. 21. A suffix will never appear at the end of a word. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. What is the meaning of the root word:flect A) To break. B) To build. C) Look at or observe. D) To bend/bent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To bend/bent. 23. Which statement is THE MOST CORRECT? A) Homonyms can belong to the same morpheme. B) Allomorphs of different morphemes never sound alike. C) Both of them are correct. D) Neither of them is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neither of them is correct. 24. Roots developed from parts of the plant other than the radicle will be called A) Tap root. B) False Roots. C) Adventitious Roots. D) Fibrous Roor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adventitious Roots. 25. What is an example of an inflectional morpheme? A) -er to form a comparative adjective. B) -ic to form an adjective. C) -ize to form a verb from a noun. D) -ly to form an adverb from an adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -er to form a comparative adjective. 26. Suffixes go at the ..... of a word: A) Start. B) Before. C) End. D) Middle point. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 27. What is a functional morpheme? A) A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. B) A free morpheme that is has a functional purpose, eg. conjunction. C) A content word such as a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. D) An morpheme that makes new words or changes the grammatical category of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A free morpheme that is has a functional purpose, eg. conjunction. 28. Follicle fruit usually dehisces A) Along ventral suture. B) Along dorsal suture. C) Along both the sutures. D) Along any one of the two sutures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Along any one of the two sutures. 29. Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme? A) Cater. B) Cattle. C) Cats. D) Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cats. 30. Select the sentence that uses the word hazardous correctly. A) Wearing a helmet is hazardous. B) Hazardous is easily heard. C) Mixing chemicals is very hazardous. D) Hazardous protects the community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mixing chemicals is very hazardous. 31. Select the sentence that uses the word immunity correctly. A) The immunity of our country is the Army. B) Immunity is hazardous pollution. C) Immunity is not defense. D) The immunity crowd celebrated the festival all week long. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The immunity of our country is the Army. 32. Which word means "the act of moving" ? A) Passable. B) Biology. C) Microscope. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement. 33. Mobe, mote, move A) Move. B) Stand. C) Run. D) Cry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Move. 34. Layer outside the cell membrane that gives the bacterial cell a solid shape. A) Cytoplasm. B) Cell wall. C) Plasma membrane. D) Pilli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cell wall. 35. What does the root ped mean? A) Sound. B) Disease. C) Foot. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot. 36. How many stems are in the word unsystematically? A) 4. B) 6. C) 3. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 37. Prefixes and suffixes correspond to: A) Function words. B) Free morphemes. C) Bound morphemes. D) Content words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bound morphemes. 38. To a great or significant A) Substantially. B) Lakuhdfxknu cnouewir fshdbgu7yektfgbo95iuadshlclehcoiefdhciuhlfohoixunxciyrhngcxxuhxrrufjk.fjkfkjfjr3hfrkjfhur3uuyro9487587cuhtuthvigkhvgikhux4onigu54onmjcrukbcrkguyytoniuchriugy4n8o5utxcoiy5ony5n9053mumuityxcjiughoifjefkdshoi3uyfrwpsehferkjsfvnkherug4ofrwufoieruf9yg54j09d958j08j95t54t49ugitrhduivhvtuhyggy98gu. C) Subsantialle. D) Oiughoi yniouhoho. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Substantially. 39. In the embryo, the differentiation of odontoblasts and fibroblasts stopped. What pathology of teeth will this lead? A) Lack of cement and tooth pulp. B) Lack of dentin and root pulp. C) Lack of enamel and dentin of the tooth. D) Lack of dentin and pulp of the tooth crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lack of dentin and pulp of the tooth crown. 40. Brunch is an example of ..... , which combining parts of different words into one. A) Clipping. B) Back-formation. C) Blending. D) Compounding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blending. 41. Morpheme-based morphology, which makes A) Use of an item-and-arrangement approach. B) Not use of an item-and-arrangement approach. C) Not use of an item-and-letters approach. D) Use of an item-and-letters approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of an item-and-arrangement approach. 42. What does the morpheme-ist refer to? A) Money used by an ATM. B) Noise a bug makes. C) Person who performs an action/believer. D) Name of a person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person who performs an action/believer. 43. What does the root 'scrib/script' mean? A) Cut. B) Write. C) Again. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 44. More than two leaves at each node is present in A) Mustard. B) Sunflower. C) Guava. D) Alstonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alstonia. 45. Which Prefix is being used in each of these examples:procedure, protrude, procrastinate, produce, and proclaim A) Pro-. B) -ure. C) Pr-. D) -e. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pro-. 46. What does the word 'autotransfusion' mean? A) Receiving the blood of donor's. B) Receiving own blood. C) Receiving own organ. D) Receiving the organ of donor's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Receiving own blood. 47. Poor internal communication is a significant impact of which type of morphology? A) Prorupted. B) Perforated. C) Elongated. D) Fragmented. E) Compact. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elongated. 48. Which prefix means with or together? A) Con-. B) Re-. C) Mis-. D) De-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Con-. 49. Using what you know about the suffix-ible, what does the word reversible mean? A) Cannot be reversed. B) To reverse before. C) To reverse in the past. D) Can be reversed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can be reversed. 50. What does "spec/spect" mean? A) To Carry. B) To Watch or Look At. C) To Discover. D) To Say or Tell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To Watch or Look At. 51. What is the meaning of the prefix 'Morph-'? A) Speak. B) Life. C) Shape or Form. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape or Form. 52. Which structures open and close stomata to allow gas exchange but prevent water loss in leaves? A) Guard cells. B) Spongy mesophyll. C) Epidermis. D) Vascular tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guard cells. 53. What suffix means "characterized by" or "filled with" ? A) -ous. B) -ful. C) -ive. D) -y. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -y. 54. A leaf margin that DOES NOT contain teeth is called ..... A) Entire. B) Serrate. C) Lobed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entire. 55. Which word means "the study of life" ? A) Passable. B) Movement. C) Biology. D) Microscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biology. 56. Which of the following words is an example of the prefix 'Geo-'? A) Audible. B) Reader. C) Geography. D) Construct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geography. 57. The teacher exclaimed, "Testing is over." Claim means? A) Respond. B) Declare. C) Answer. D) Ask. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Declare. 58. How does the morpheme '-ed' function in the word 'walked'? A) To form a noun. B) To indicate past tense. C) To show plurality. D) To create a new word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To indicate past tense. 59. My mother was very secretive about her past because it was painful for her VS because it was painful for her, my mother was very secretive about her past.This sentence is an example of: A) Semantic. B) Different sentence structure. C) Syntax. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 60. A therapy for people that are hard hearing. A) Audible. B) Audience. C) Auditory. D) Audiology. 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