This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. COMPOUNDING IS UNDER WHAT BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS? A) MORPHOLOGY. B) PHONOLOGY. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MORPHOLOGY. 2. What is a lexical morpheme? A) An element that makes new words or changes the grammatical category of a word. B) A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. C) A free morpheme that is has a functional purpose, eg. conjunction. D) A content word such as a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A content word such as a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. 3. Choose the BEST word to complete the sentence using a suffix:I could easily figure out what would happen next because the book was so ..... A) Unpredictable. B) Guessing. C) Knowible. D) Predicttible. E) Predictable. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Predictable. 4. Endosperm is absent in seed of A) Maize. B) Coconut. C) Castor. D) Orchids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Orchids. 5. The best dancers are very flexible. They can contort their bodies in different ways.What does tort mean? A) Move. B) Twist. C) Wiggle. D) Turn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twist. 6. What are the types of word formation called? A) Derivation and compounding. B) Root and Composition. C) Letters and numbers. D) Words and roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derivation and compounding. 7. Radial symmetry is found in the flowers of A) Cassia. B) Pissum. C) Brassica. D) Trifolium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brassica. 8. Stilt roots are reported from- A) Radish. B) Bryophyllum. C) Maize. D) Mango, Ginger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maize. 9. Dibawah ini adalah hewan yang bisa membantu penyerbukan tanaman, kecuali ..... A) Kucing. B) Lebah. C) Tawon. D) Kupu-kupu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kucing. 10. The word "cat" has: A) 1 morpheme and 3 phonemes. B) 3 morphemes and 1 phoneme. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 morpheme and 3 phonemes. 11. What does the root word 'rupt' mean? A) To feel. B) To break. C) Alone. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To break. 12. In the word "overact, " the prefix "over" means ..... A) Above. B) Too much. C) Among. D) Large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Too much. 13. In the word; "UNIVERSAL" . Which one is the preffix? A) UNI. B) UN. C) UNIVER. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) UNI. 14. Which word means "small view" ? A) Microscope. B) Movement. C) Passable. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Microscope. 15. What is the meaning of the suffix-en? A) The most. B) Condition of, quality of. C) Made of. D) Full of, to become. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Full of, to become. 16. We ..... cycle water bottles. A) Un. B) Pre. C) Re. D) Dis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Re. 17. What does "scrib" mean? A) Earth. B) Throw. C) Write. D) Move up or step up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Write. 18. When you ask for someone's autograph, you want them to sign something. The root "graph" means ..... A) To write. B) To hear. C) To play. D) To see. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To write. 19. Parthenocarpic is a fruit A) Formed from superior ovary. B) Formed from inferior ovary. C) Consisting of ripened ovary and thalamus. D) Which does not possess seeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Which does not possess seeds. 20. A linguistic paradigm is ..... A) The complete set of unrelated word forms associated with a given lexeme. B) The complete set of related word forms associated with a given lexeme. C) The incomplete set of unrelated word forms associated with a given lexeme. D) The incomplete set of related word forms associated with a given lexeme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The complete set of related word forms associated with a given lexeme. 21. What does the prefix 'un-' mean? A) Not. B) Sometimes. C) Very. D) Always. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 22. A Greek root meaning "star" A) Asteroid. B) Astronomy. C) Disaster. D) Astr. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astr. 23. In the English language derivational morphemes can be ..... A) Prefixes only. B) Suffixes only. C) Prefixes and suffixes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prefixes and suffixes. 24. Identify the word-formation process:examination $\rightarrow$ exam A) Root creation. B) Acronym. C) Clipped form. D) Derivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clipped form. 25. What does the root word "bio" mean in the word "biology" ? A) Small. B) Life. C) Round. D) Hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 26. My dentist ..... two of my baby teeth when I went for my checkup. A) Attracted. B) Retracted. C) Extracted. D) Expanded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extracted. 27. What is the smallest unit of meaning in a language? A) Phoneme. B) Syllable. C) Word. D) Morpheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morpheme. 28. What does the root "bene" mean? A) Self. B) Good. C) Before. D) Bean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good. 29. Definition of a "Morpheme" A) "A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.". B) '' Understanding sentence formation.". C) '' Learning the correct pronunciation of words" . D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.". 30. What does the prefix '' il-'' mean? A) Among, between. B) Do again. C) Pull, draw in. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not. 31. List the bound morphemes in these words:fearlessly, misleads, previewer, shortened, unhappier A) -less /-ly /-s. B) Pre /-er / en. C) Ed / un/er. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 32. Complete the sentence according to the text:A free morpheme ..... A) Does not have meaning. B) Cannot occur as separate words. C) Can occur as separate words. D) Is not a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can occur as separate words. 33. I saw your lookbook for this autumn; everything looks beautiful!Identify the word formation process of the colored word in the sentence A) Compounding. B) Acronym. C) Clipping. D) Borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compounding. 34. Morphology is the study of words and word-making or word formation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. Using your knowledge of roots/affixes, what would most likely be the definition of the following made-up word:CLAIMPHOBIA A) To be afraid of clams. B) To fear sobbing. C) To be afraid of a declaration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be afraid of a declaration. 36. What is the meaning of the prefix un? A) Again. B) Before. C) Not. D) Not or Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 37. The root word milli means A) 1/100. B) Your youngest little baby sibling. C) 1, 000. D) 1/1, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/1, 000. 38. What does "anti" mean? A) Against. B) Cause to. C) Not. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Against. 39. Which word does not belong? A) Lengthen. B) Height. C) Dampen. D) Sweeten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Height. 40. Granular casts were found in the urine. Which part of the nephron is affected? A) Distal convoluted tubules. B) Loop of Henle. C) Collecting tubules. D) Proximal convoluted tubules. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proximal convoluted tubules. 41. In the word 'unhappiness', which part is the root morpheme? A) Unhappi-. B) -ness. C) Un-. D) Happi-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happi-. 42. Compounds have one element that is sematically and grammatically more important. It is called ..... A) Branch. B) Head. C) Base. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Head. 43. What two components is grammar divisible into? A) Syntax and morphology. B) Phonology and morphology. C) Syntax and stylistics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax and morphology. 44. How many plants in the list given below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three. 45. What does the morpheme 'inter' mean? A) After or beyond. B) Between or among. C) Before or prior. D) Within or inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Between or among. 46. What does the rice plant 'spikelet' have on it? A) A stem. B) Roots. C) A tiller. D) Rice grain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rice grain. 47. Where would an animal with thick white fur and a thick layer of fat most likely live? A) In a stream. B) In a desert. C) In a grassland. D) In a polar region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In a polar region. 48. Which statement is FALSE? A) Derivational morphemes change the grammatical category of words. B) Inflectional morphemes change the grammatical category of words. C) Functional morphemes are stable in number and almost never increase. D) Inflectional morphemes and derivational morphemes are bound morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflectional morphemes change the grammatical category of words. 49. Is this the meaning of a prefix? A prefix is letters that are added before a word and makes a new word. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 50. The morpheme-ful in the words succesful and beautiful are: A) Free morphemes. B) Suffixes. C) Prefixes. D) Function morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suffixes. 51. There are many PP cells in the islets of Langerhans. Which function is stimulated in which organs? A) Glandulocytes of stomach and pancreas. B) Goblet cells of intestine. C) Cells of gallbladder and liver. D) Cells of colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glandulocytes of stomach and pancreas. 52. How many inflectional morphemes in english? A) 6. B) 7. C) 8. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8. 53. Bicarpellary gynocieum and oblique ovary occurs in A) Banana. B) Pisum. C) Brinjal. D) Mustard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mustard. 54. What is the suffix in the word unbelievable? A) Believe. B) Un-. C) -able. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -able. 55. Which of the following is not a storage root? A) Adventitious roots of sweet potato. B) Tap root of carrot. C) Roots of banyan tree. D) Tap root of turnip. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roots of banyan tree. 56. What is the meaning of the root "astro" ? A) Heat. B) Star. C) Fear. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Star. 57. What does the root 'geo' mean? A) Sky. B) Earth. C) Fire. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth. 58. Potatoes served as food for the Inca year round. They were a(n) ..... part of the Inca diet. A) Illegal. B) Irregular. C) Regular. D) Legal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regular. 59. Identify the free morpheme in the word 'unhappiness': A) -ness. B) Happy. C) -s. D) Un-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happy. 60. BORROWING IS UNDER WHAT BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS? A) MORPHOLOGY. B) PHONOLOGY. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MORPHOLOGY. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 6Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books