This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of Figurative Language is '' Anthony has butterflies in his belly" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personifaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 2. After scoring the winning goal, Elvis jumped up and down ran around in circles and did two backflips. What change needs to be made to this sentence? A) Add commas after up and down. B) Add commas after down and circles. C) Add commas after circles. D) No change needed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Add commas after down and circles. 3. A true fruit is formed from A) Ovary. B) Ovary and thalamus. C) Ovary and calyx. D) Ovary and receptacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ovary. 4. What is the meaning of the suffix-ly? A) Without. B) Present tense. C) In a way. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a way. 5. Fossils that show links in traits between groups of organisms used to document intermediate stages in evolution A) Transitional fossils. B) Vestigial structures. C) Population. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transitional fossils. 6. It is a brand new word based on no pre-existing morphemes A) Root creation. B) Category extension. C) Derivation. D) Clipped form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Root creation. 7. A word part that contains the central meaning of the word is a A) Suffix. B) Verb. C) Root. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root. 8. Which is an example of zygomorphoc flower with imbricate aestivation A) Canna. B) Cassia. C) Calotropis. D) Cucumber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cassia. 9. Free morpheme example is: A) Less. B) Beauty. C) Ship. D) Ment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beauty. 10. What is the correct order for the littoral, going from land? A) Backshore, Nearshore, Foreshore, Offshore. B) Nearshore, Foresore, Backshore, Offshore. C) Backshore, Foreshore, Nearshore, Offshore. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Backshore, Foreshore, Nearshore, Offshore. 11. The theory or practice of navigating. A) Naval. B) Navigation. C) Navy. D) Circumnavigate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Navigation. 12. Directions:Choose the correct meaning of the Latin or Greek base.rupt: A) To build. B) To carry. C) To break or burst. D) To believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To break or burst. 13. Drupe fruit have A) Fleshy apicarp. B) Stony endocarp. C) Fleshy endocarp. D) All of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stony endocarp. 14. The students will be working on a fun activity. Find the suffix in the word "Activity" A) Act. B) Ivity. C) Ity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ity. 15. What is morphology? A) The study of the structure and form of words in language. B) A study of parts of speech commonly used in writing. C) The topic of study of a morphologist. D) The study of something that shifts from one topic to the next. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of the structure and form of words in language. 16. Which of the following is an example of a free morpheme? A) -s. B) Un-. C) Book. D) -ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Book. 17. Archaeologists were able to ..... King Pakal's death mask from the rubble in his tomb. A) Subtract. B) Tractor. C) Attract. D) Extract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extract. 18. What does the root 'bio' mean? A) Earth. B) Death. C) Life. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 19. Small circular pieces of DNA that can be shared between bacteria. A) Chromosome. B) Ribosome. C) Cytoplasm. D) Plasmid DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plasmid DNA. 20. According to their meaning, morphemes consist of: A) Root & stem. B) Bases & affixes. C) Free & bound morphemes. D) Derivational & inflectional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bases & affixes. 21. Identify the word-formation process:enjoy (v) + able (suffix) = enjoyable (adj) A) Root creation. B) Acronym. C) Blend. D) Derivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derivation. 22. Plumule is covered by- A) Coleoptile. B) Coleorrhiza. C) Root cap. D) Hypocotyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleoptile. 23. Which of the following combinations is false? A) Placenta-arrangement of ovules within ovary. B) Syncarpous-Carpels fused-Mustard, tomato. C) Arrangement of ovules within ovary-ovulation. D) Apocarpous-Carpels free-Lotus, Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arrangement of ovules within ovary-ovulation. 24. Which of the following is incorrrect for forewings ofcockroach? A) Also called mesothoracic wings or tegmina. B) Opaque, dark and leathery. C) Used in flight. D) Cover the hind wings when at rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Used in flight. 25. Inflectional morphemes are often used to make words of different grammatical category from the stem. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 26. The syntactic categories are ..... A) Morpheme, phoneme and lexeme. B) Subject, verb and object. C) Syntax, grammar and relationship. D) Phonetic, phonology and syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject, verb and object. 27. Zero morphs are forms that ..... A) Have a regular shape. B) Not marked overtly. C) Are marked overtly. D) Do not exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not marked overtly. 28. The grocery store is at the ..... between Grove Avenue and Maple Street. A) Interception. B) Action. C) Intersection. D) Section. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intersection. 29. "Prof" is the clipped word of ..... A) Professor. B) Profess. C) Professional. D) Professionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Professor. 30. A morpheme, or root, is ..... A) A word ending. B) A meaningful part of a word. C) A part of speech. D) An affix that is attached to a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A meaningful part of a word. 31. What is the meaning of the prefix:re A) In, on, not. B) Again, thoroughly. C) Together, thoroughly. D) From, out of, thoroughly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Again, thoroughly. 32. Choose the BEST word to complete the sentence using a suffix:After a full day of school followed by a long football practice, James ..... crawled into bed and fell right asleep. A) Tiredly. B) Tiredable. C) Tiredness. D) Tiredible. E) Tiredy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tiredly. 33. What do the suffixes-ance/-ence mean? (e.g. importance/intelligence) A) Action of / result of. B) Quality of. C) Relating to. D) State or condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) State or condition. 34. Lead morphology can be characterized by which of the following parameters? A) Particle size. B) Surface area. C) Crystal structure. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 35. Since the submarine can purify water and air, she is able to circumnavigate the planet without resurfacing. A) Travel completely around. B) Travel straight through. C) Travel for large distances. D) Travel against the currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Travel completely around. 36. In the word 'unhappiness', which part is the derivational morpheme? A) -ness. B) Un-. C) Happy. D) -iness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Un-. 37. Identify the type of morpheme in the word 'happiness'. A) Bound morpheme. B) Free morpheme. C) Derivational morpheme. D) Inflectional morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Derivational morpheme. 38. Pick the answer that has derivatives of the same root word. A) Good, bad. B) Car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle. C) Happy, merry, excited,. D) Read, reread, readability, reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Read, reread, readability, reading. 39. How many morphemes of "disagreement" A) 2. B) 3. C) 1. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 40. Bacterial cells are ..... A) Prokaryotes. B) Eukaryotes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prokaryotes. 41. Inflectional affixes are suffixes performing a ..... A) Word-class. B) Grammatical function. C) Lexical meaning. D) Word formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grammatical function. 42. The antonym of COMMISSIONED A) Started. B) Closed. C) Terminated. D) Finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terminated. 43. Before a noun you have to use A) A morpheme. B) A predicate. C) An article. D) A verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An article. 44. How to structure the sentence? A) Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase (predicate). B) Noun and pronoun. C) Article and noun. D) Verb and object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase (predicate). 45. Which of the following is NOT a verb? A) Cried. B) Funny. C) Cruising. D) Swim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Funny. 46. Which is NOT an example of inflectional morpheme? A) Cook-Cooked. B) Sail-Sailor. C) Boy-Boy's. D) Big-Bigger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sail-Sailor. 47. Complete with the verb "TO BE"It ..... a dog. A) Am. B) Is. C) Are. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is. 48. Flower of fabaceae is A) Incomplete zygomorphic trimerous. B) Incomplete actinomorphic pentamerous. C) Complete zygomorphic pentamerous. D) Complete actinomorphic trimerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complete zygomorphic pentamerous. 49. Identify the word-formation process:un + happy = unhappy A) Blending. B) Inflection. C) Derivation. D) Compounding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Derivation. 50. Colchicine is obtained from a member of- A) Fabaceae. B) Solanaceae. C) Brassicaceae. D) Liliaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Liliaceae. 51. What does the suffixes-able, ible mean? A) Opposite from. B) Act, process. C) Capable of, suitable for. D) To break or burst. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capable of, suitable for. 52. An aggregate fruit is one which develops from: A) Multicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium. B) Complete inflorescence. C) Multicarpellary superior ovary. D) Multicarpellary apocarpus gynoecium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Multicarpellary apocarpus gynoecium. 53. What does suffix-ness mean? (e.g. darkness) A) Quality and state of. B) Relating to. C) The result of. D) State of or condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quality and state of. 54. Brittney would like a skateboard, or a lasso for her birthday. What change needs to be made to this sentence? A) Add a comma after lasso. B) Remove a comma after skateboard. C) No change needed. D) Add a comma after or. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Remove a comma after skateboard. 55. What is NOT an example of an open (content) class word? A) A pronoun. B) An adverb. C) A noun. D) A verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pronoun. 56. Think about a tractor.What does tract mean? A) Move. B) Pull. C) Lift. D) Push. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull. 57. If the prefix re-means again, then what does the word redo mean? A) Do Over. B) Set. C) Done. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do Over. 58. The root "hydr" is related to which of the following? A) Water. B) Heat. C) Fear. D) Name. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 59. What does the suffix "-(i)ty" mean? A) Made of. B) State of. C) Without. D) Action, process. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State of. 60. An example of internal stability is: A) Carefully-carefull-care. B) Building-built. C) Water-wa. D) Complexity-complexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carefully-carefull-care. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 6Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books