This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Morphology – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Morphology Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the root phon mean? A) Disease. B) Feeling. C) Sound. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound. 2. METATHESIS IS UNDER WHAT BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS? A) MORPHOLOGY. B) PHONOLOGY. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PHONOLOGY. 3. Given below is a set of four pair of modification with examples. Identify the incorrect pairing.a) Colocasia-modified stemb) Citrus thorn-modified leafc) Phylloclade of Opuntia-modified stemd) Turnip-modified root A) C. B) B. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 4. Which of the following is a real-world application of lead morphology studies? A) Water purification. B) Soil remediation. C) Battery development. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. What does the prefix pre-mean? A) Never. B) Before. C) During. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 6. What does the prefix EX-/E-/EC-/EF-mean? A) Out of, from. B) An action; condition; causing a specific action. C) Without. D) Changes a verb to noun (person). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Out of, from. 7. What does "flect/flex" mean? A) To Say. B) To Watch or Look. C) To Bend or Curve. D) To Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Bend or Curve. 8. Inflectional affixes perform a ..... function. A) Grammatical. B) Lexical. C) Word-class. D) Word formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grammatical. 9. Which of following is agregate fruit A) Custard apple. B) Mulberry. C) Jackfruit. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 10. Which word describes something that is "very bad" ? A) Spheres. B) Thrives. C) Passable. D) Severe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Severe. 11. Standard petal of papilionaceus corolla is called A) Pappus. B) Corona. C) Vexillum. D) Carina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vexillum. 12. What does the root 'soci' mean? A) People. B) Generally. C) Sauce. D) Text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People. 13. Which of the following has a prefix that does NOT mean "before" ? A) Preview. B) Press. C) Prepay. D) Preheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Press. 14. What is a morpheme? A) A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. B) A content word such as a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb. C) An element that makes new words or changes the grammatical category of a word. D) The study of the basic elements used in a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. 15. Inflectional morphemes in English are ..... A) Only suffixes. B) Only prefixes. C) Infixes. D) Pre-and suffixes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only suffixes. 16. Which scientific technique is used to visualize lead morphology at the nanoscale? A) Scanning electron microscopy. B) Atomic force microscopy. C) Transmission electron microscopy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. Jack or Jill (collects, collect) the pail for the water. A) Collects. B) Collect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collects. 18. Which prefix means reduce or opposite of A) De. B) In. C) Pre. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) De. 19. What are the two types of free morphemes? A) Open and bound. B) Lexical and open. C) Lexical and functional. D) Derivational and inflectional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lexical and functional. 20. Which vocabulary word best completes the sentence?The United States ..... goods from many other countries. A) Sell. B) Imports. C) Transport. D) Teleport. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imports. 21. Body parts that have lost their original function. A) Vestigial structures. B) Embryos. C) Analogous structures. D) Homologous structures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vestigial structures. 22. What can words often be divided into? A) Morphemes. B) Allomorph. C) Word formation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphemes. 23. A morpheme that cannot stand alone is referred to as a ..... morpheme. A) Bound. B) Inflectional. C) Root. D) Derivational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bound. 24. Flowers are Zygomorphic in A) Tomato. B) Gulmohur. C) Datura. D) Mustard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gulmohur. 25. Which word means "not toxic" ? A) Passable. B) Misspell. C) Biology. D) Nontoxic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nontoxic. 26. Full of imagination or invention A) Attentive. B) Bubbly. C) Creative. D) Secretive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creative. 27. Petunia nicotiana dhatura belongs to family A) Liliaceae. B) Fabaceae. C) Legumoneceae. D) Solanaceae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solanaceae. 28. An infix is a ..... A) Morpheme occurring in the middle of a word. B) Morpheme occurring in the middle of a base. C) Morpheme occurring in the middle of a stem. D) Morpheme annexed before a stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morpheme occurring in the middle of a base. 29. How many morphemes are there in the word 'doghouse'? A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 30. Which of the following is an incorrect match? A) Perigynous flower-Plum, rose and peach. B) Monadelphous-Pea. C) Epigynous flower-Guava, cucumber, and ray florets of sunflower. D) Polyadelphous-Citrus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monadelphous-Pea. 31. Which list has all words with derivational morphology? A) Unkind, Indo-European, morphology, these, within. B) Unkind, Indo-European, morphology, Persians, within. C) Unkind, Indo-European, morphology, feature, within. D) Unkind, Indo-European, morphology, thought, within. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unkind, Indo-European, morphology, Persians, within. 32. How many tillers can a rice plant have with transplanting? A) 5-10. B) 100. C) 2. D) 10-20. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10-20. 33. Inflectional morpheme A) Changes meanings and parts of speech. B) Does not change meanings or parts of speech. C) Makes adverbs from adjectives. D) Smallest part of a word that precedes the root. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does not change meanings or parts of speech. 34. How many zones is the littoral zone split in to? A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 35. Choose the best form of inflection from the words below.man-menbaby-babies A) Form of Adjective. B) Form of Noun. C) Form of Pronoun and Determiner. D) Form of Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form of Noun. 36. To say aloud or make something known A) Dictate. B) Contradict. C) Verdict. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dictate. 37. I have ..... seen an orchestra, one day I will. A) Never. B) Ever. C) Will. D) Can. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never. 38. The suffix-ed means A) Happened in the past. B) Never happened. C) Currently happening. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happened in the past. 39. Which is the BOUND morpheme(s) of the word 'unreadable'. A) Read. B) Un-/-able. C) Read /-able. D) -able. E) Un-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Un-/-able. 40. What is the primary function of inflectional morphemes in English? A) To modify a word's tense, number, aspect, mood, or gender. B) To create new words with new meanings. C) To change the word class of a base word. D) To form compound words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To modify a word's tense, number, aspect, mood, or gender. 41. What is the meaning of the prefix:con A) Again, thoroughly. B) In, on, not. C) From, out of, thoroughly. D) Together, thoroughly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Together, thoroughly. 42. Transform means to change ..... Hinit:Think about what tranformers do. A) Shape/form. B) With. C) Across. D) Through. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shape/form. 43. Humans, birds, whales, and lizards all have similar arm bones. What is the reason for this? A) The function of these bones is the same in all animals. B) They live in similar environments. C) All organisms resemble humans. D) They have a common ancestor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They have a common ancestor. 44. I can't read my grandfather's note because his handwriting is sloppy and ..... A) Regular. B) Legible. C) Irregular. D) Illegible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Illegible. 45. The words, such as brainwash, bookworm, fingerprint, and seasick are the examples of ..... A) Blending. B) Clipping. C) Acronym. D) Borrowing. E) Compounding. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Compounding. 46. What is the meaning of the root word:punct A) Pointed, stabbed, or pierced, prompt. B) Alone. C) To place or put:to pause or temporarily halt. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pointed, stabbed, or pierced, prompt. 47. Stems in sugarcane and maize develop roots from the lower nodes of the stem meant for additional anchorage of the plant to the soil. Name the type of root best suited from the list below. A) Haustoria. B) Stilt root. C) Pneumatophore. D) Prop root. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stilt root. 48. A. Cells of root meristematic zone has dense cytoplasm.B. Chrysanthemum, Pineapple and Jasminum are examples of sucker.C. A fleshy bud is called bulbil.D. Root cap is absent in Hydrophytes. A) All are correct. B) All are correct, except B. C) A & B are correct. D) B & C are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All are correct, except B. 49. Compounding is ..... A) A process of letters formation that involves derivation complete word forms into a single compound form. B) A process of food formation that involves meat complete meal forms into a perfect dish. C) A process of word formation that involves combining complete word forms into a single compound form. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A process of word formation that involves combining complete word forms into a single compound form. 50. Bound morphemes are: A) Morphemes that can stand alone as an independent word. B) Affixes. C) Open class of words. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Affixes. 51. Sepal is the member of which whorl in a flower? A) Androecium. B) Calyx. C) Gynoecium. D) Corolla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calyx. 52. Add the correct suffix to the end of the word nation. nation ..... A) -ial. B) -al. C) -able. D) -ous. E) -ible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -al. 53. What is the process of forming a new word by doubling an entire free morpheme? A) Reduplication. B) Clipping. C) Compounding. D) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduplication. 54. What does the morpheme 'mal-' mean? A) Helpful or beneficial. B) Bad or wrong. C) Good or right. D) Neutral or average. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bad or wrong. 55. Studying the relationship between organisms by comparing their structures A) Fossil record. B) Variation. C) Comparative anatomy. D) Biological evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparative anatomy. 56. What broad type of anaemia does thalassaemia fit into? A) Macrocytic anemia. B) Microcytic hypochromic anemia. C) Normocytic anemia. D) Megaloblastic anemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microcytic hypochromic anemia. 57. In comparative morphology, which of the following structures are considered homologous? A) The wings of a bat and the wings of a butterfly. B) The flippers of a whale and the wings of a bird. C) The legs of a human and the legs of a spider. D) The arms of a human and the wings of a bat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The arms of a human and the wings of a bat. 58. Silicula fruit is A) Multiple. B) Achenial. C) Capsular. D) Schizocarpic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capsular. 59. A bat wing and a butterfly wing are both used for flying but they are made differently. What type of structure is this? A) Homologous structure. B) Fossil structure. C) Analogous structure. D) Vestigial structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogous structure. 60. A variant of a morpheme that does not change its identity A) Allomorph. B) Allophone. C) Allotted. D) Alloy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allomorph. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesMorphology Quiz 1Morphology Quiz 2Morphology Quiz 3Morphology Quiz 4Morphology Quiz 5Morphology Quiz 7Morphology Quiz 8Morphology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books