This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Prefixes And Suffixes – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word "pretest" mean.I took a spelling pretest on Monday. A) After test. B) During test. C) Before test. D) Not a test. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before test. 2. What is the root word in kindness? A) Person. B) Ness. C) Nice. D) Kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kind. 3. What is the prefix in the word 'unhappy'? A) In-. B) Un-. C) Dis-. D) Non-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Un-. 4. Identify the word with a prefix:'preheat', 'apple', 'understand' A) Prewash. B) Precook. C) Preheat. D) Postheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preheat. 5. A suffix is an affix that is added to the ..... of a word A) End. B) Middle. C) Beginning. D) Front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End. 6. What is the base word in the word relocate? A) Re. B) Relocate. C) Locate. D) Locate again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Locate. 7. Be careful because the glass is break ..... A) Able. B) Ness. C) Ful. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able. 8. When something is achievable, you ..... A) Must do it. B) Cannot do it. C) Couldn't do it. D) Can do it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can do it. 9. Grace plans to be a ..... when she grows up. (music) A) -ly. B) -fully. C) -cian. D) -al. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -cian. 10. Which word contains a root word that means nature? A) Physical. B) Drainage. C) Solitary. D) Fertilize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical. 11. What does the suffix "-ly" indicate? A) Characterized by. B) Done in a certain way. C) Having the quality of. D) The action, result, or condition of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Done in a certain way. 12. Which word means not neat? A) Unwell. B) Untidy. C) Uncommon. D) Unusual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untidy. 13. What is the meaning of the word prefix? A) A word within a word. B) A group of letters put before a root word which changes its meaning. C) A group of letters put at the end of a root word which changes its meaning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of letters put before a root word which changes its meaning. 14. My friend said the homework was 'manageable'. What does the suffix '-able' imply about the homework? A) That it was difficult to manage. B) That it was possible to manage or do. C) That it was the result of management. D) That it was managed by someone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That it was possible to manage or do. 15. Complete the sentences by choosing the correct prefix to use.Let's look at this information again. We should ..... view it before the test. A) Dis-. B) -in. C) Mis-. D) Un-. E) Re-. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Re-. 16. Choose the correct prefix for: ..... respect A) Un-. B) Dis-. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dis-. 17. Complete the sentences by writing the correct SUFFIX in the blank space.She is very beauti ..... She has a lot of admirers. A) -ly. B) -ing. C) -ful. D) -ness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ful. 18. Finding something funny; amused A) Clowner. B) Amusement. C) Laughter. D) Funny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amusement. 19. If you (a) for the new Taylor Swift CD, you get a free shirt. A) Preapprove. B) Preview. C) Pretest. D) A. prepay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. prepay. 20. Which of these is an "im" prefix? A) Improper. B) Mislead. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improper. 21. When you "recycle" something, you can ..... A) Use more. B) Use it again. C) Use less. D) Use none. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use it again. 22. Which of the following is an example of a suffix? A) Un-. B) -ly. C) Anti-. D) Dis-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ly. 23. "to remake something" means A) Make it up. B) Make less. C) Make it happen. D) Make it again. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Make it again. 24. If you wanted to compare two shopping bags, what would you say? A) This one is lightest than that one. B) This one is lighted than that one. C) This one is lighter than that one. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This one is lighter than that one. 25. Does this word have a prefix, suffix, or both? A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 26. The prefix "mis" in the word "misunderstand" means- A) Wrong. B) Before. C) Right. D) Trans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 27. What is the prefix in this word?Unhappy A) Un. B) Happy. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Un. 28. What is the root word in rebuild? A) Re. B) Building. C) Build. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Build. 29. Which word correctly completes the sentence? The scientist's discovery was so ..... that it changed how everyone thought about space. A) Impact. B) Impactful. C) Impacted. D) Impacting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impactful. 30. Which suffix means 'condition/state of'? A) -ness. B) -less. C) -ful. D) -y. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ness. 31. True or False:Suffixes change the part of speech of a word. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. Which of the following is a suffix:-ful, -less, or-ing? A) -ness. B) -ful, -less, -ing. C) -able. D) -ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ful, -less, -ing. 33. Which word means to put something in the wrong place? A) Misplaced. B) Nonplaced. C) Replaced. D) Unplaced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misplaced. 34. Choose the word that contains a prefix. A) Small. B) Ball. C) Misfit. D) Clean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misfit. 35. Which suffix means "full of" ? A) -ness. B) -able, -ible. C) -ful. D) -ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ful. 36. What is the prefix in this word?return A) Re. B) Turn. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Re. 37. What is it prefix or suffixfearless A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suffix. 38. What is the main part of the word called? A) Suffix. B) Root word. C) Affix. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Root word. 39. Select the word that best fits into the sentence.Before I bake the cake I need to ..... the oven. A) Preheat. B) Unable. C) Preview. D) Replay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preheat. 40. What is the meaning of the suffix '-ful'? A) Full of. B) Without. C) Characterized by/like. D) Not/opposite of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full of. 41. Which suffix is used to form adverbs? A) -er. B) -able. C) -ly. D) -ist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ly. 42. Which suffix is used to form nouns? A) -ly. B) -ness. C) -acy. D) -hood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -acy. 43. The bad weather made it ..... possible to play baseball. A) Re. B) Dis. C) Im. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Im. 44. What does the suffix "-able, -ible" indicate? A) Characterized by. B) The action, result, or condition of something. C) Having the quality of or ability to. D) Done in a certain way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having the quality of or ability to. 45. What is the meaning of the prefix 'under-'? A) Full of. B) Not/opposite of. C) To little/below. D) Too much/above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To little/below. 46. Which suffix does not mean "act of" or "state of" or "result of" ? Think of words to confirm your choices. A) -ery. B) -tion. C) -ation. D) -sion. E) -ion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ery. 47. Which word means a woman who waits tables? A) Waiter. B) Waitless. C) Waitor. D) Waitress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waitress. 48. Find the antonym for the word unimpressed. A) Impressed. B) Hopeful. C) Disorganized. D) Bored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impressed. 49. Prefixes that change the word to a negative meaning do not include: A) Ir-. B) Pre-. C) Dis-. D) Im-. E) In-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pre-. 50. What does misunderstand mean? A) Not understand. B) Not under. C) To understand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not understand. 51. Which of these is a "dis" prefix? A) Disappear. B) Decrease. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disappear. 52. What is the meaning of the prefix 'in-'? A) Full of. B) Not/opposite of. C) Without. D) Characterized by/like. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not/opposite of. 53. Which of these is a "ment" suffix? A) Argument. B) Testiness. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argument. 54. What is the base word in hopping? A) Hop. B) Hopp. C) Hopped. D) Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hop. 55. What is the suffix in the word 'jumping'? A) Ed. B) Ly. C) Es. D) Ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ing. 56. Which of the following is a prefix:un-, re-, or-ly? A) -ly. B) Dis-. C) In-. D) Un-, re-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Un-, re-. 57. What does the word helpful mean? He was helpful by doing the dishes. A) Did not help. B) Will not help. C) Full of help. D) Did the dishes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Full of help. 58. His face was filled with ..... when he saw his sister slip and fall. A) Peaceful. B) Painful. C) Questions. D) Amusement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amusement. 59. How do you split the following word up into prefix / root / suffix? (relaxation) A) Relax / a / tion. B) Re / laxa / tion. C) Re / lax / ation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Re / lax / ation. 60. Find the antonym for the word dissatisfied. A) Satisfied. B) Popular. C) Careless. D) Hungry. 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