This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Audience and audition has the same root A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. Struct = to build The men were doing construction on the side of the road. A) Building or fixing part of the road. B) Breaking the road apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building or fixing part of the road. 3. Meaning of Graph A) Write. B) Plot. C) Track. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Write. 4. In ..... ity (Latin word meaning "end") A) Aut. B) Ped. C) Port. D) Fin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fin. 5. The laws need to be reformed. What does the root word in reformed mean? A) To look. B) To answer. C) To shape. D) Distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To shape. 6. There is a statue of George Washington in Valley Forge Park with an ..... at the bottom of it. A) Epigraph. B) Signature. C) Automobile. D) Orthography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epigraph. 7. If the word move means "to go from one place to another" what does the word moveable mean? A) Can go. B) Go again. C) Never go. D) Go before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can go. 8. The root word for "small" is ..... A) Bio. B) Auto. C) Micro. D) Tele. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Micro. 9. What did the family do after eating the evening meal? A) Watched television. B) Helped clean up. C) Read a book together. D) Talked about their feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talked about their feelings. 10. Which root word means to see or to look? A) View/at. B) Aud. C) Phon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) View/at. 11. My essay was confusing, so my teacher asked me to ..... my writing. A) Translucent. B) Visible. C) Revise. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revise. 12. Which word has the SAME root word as wanted? A) Wants. B) Ant. C) Waited. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wants. 13. What is the root word for remake? A) More. B) Make. C) Re. D) Rem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make. 14. The greek root "path" (ex:sympathy) means ..... A) Talking & singing. B) Sleeping & breathing. C) Feeling and suffering. D) Digging & planting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feeling and suffering. 15. Which word is an adjective that describes a generous, good feast? A) Benevolent. B) Demote. C) Bounteous. D) Beneath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bounteous. 16. What does chron mean? A) Time. B) Space. C) Plants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 17. If biannual means every two years, what does biweekly mean? A) Every four weeks. B) Every two years. C) Every two weeks. D) Every two days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Every two weeks. 18. The sales clerk was ..... to manager of the store since he had worked hard. A) Fired. B) Lectured. C) Demoted. D) Promoted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Promoted. 19. Harry is clearly the protagonist in the Harry Potter series. What does the root word "pro" mean in "protagonist?" A) Life. B) First. C) Come. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First. 20. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?The whole room was ..... when the play started. A) Quieting. B) Quiet. C) Quietly. D) Quieten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quiet. 21. ..... points are given when one team has provided every correct answer to the trivia game. A) Bonus. B) Benevolent. C) Biography. D) Benign. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bonus. 22. Geology is the study of the biological, chemical, and physical history of the earth. The root logy means the study of something. What does the root geo mean? A) Break or burst. B) Earth or rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth or rock. 23. True or False:life=bio A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. A microscope allows you to see A) Small things. B) Things that are far away. C) Nothing. D) EVERYTHING!!!!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small things. 25. Photo-means ..... A) Picture. B) Flash. C) Light. D) Record. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 26. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... He turned in his homework ..... A) Having to do with. B) Realistic. C) Incomplete. D) Late. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incomplete. 27. If the word base means "the bottom of something" what does the word basement mean? A) The roof of a house. B) The chimney of a house. C) The lowest part of a house. D) The part of the house above the street. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The lowest part of a house. 28. If the word energy means "strength or power" what does the word energetic mean? A) Smoothly. B) Without power. C) With lots of strength. D) In a slow way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With lots of strength. 29. What is the root word of played? A) Play. B) Playing. C) Ed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Play. 30. If something is audible, it is able to be ..... A) Heard. B) Smelled. C) Seen. D) Touched. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heard. 31. Which words does not belong? A) Add. B) Additional. C) Moving. D) Addition. E) Forgotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving. 32. I came to school overdressed. What does overdressed mean? A) Dress to formally. B) Embarrassed. C) Wearing a sweater over your dress. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dress to formally. 33. Which word belongs to the root:work A) Moving. B) Movers. C) Adding. D) Working. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Working. 34. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?The cat ..... jumped up on the boy's lap. A) Quicker. B) Quick. C) Quicklier. D) Quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quickly. 35. The Latin root word "luc, " found in words like lucid and translucent, means ..... A) All. B) See. C) Feel. D) Bright light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bright light. 36. What does centr mean? A) Host. B) Center. C) Step. D) Move. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Center. 37. What does the root word necro mean? A) Body. B) Death. C) Ice. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death. 38. What punishment did someone in the community receive for a major wrongdoing? A) Death. B) Jail. C) Community service. D) Released from the community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Released from the community. 39. The root word for "far" is ..... A) Phon/phone. B) At/show. C) Tele. D) Mob/against/mov. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tele. 40. The Greek word Phil means: A) Light. B) Live. C) Love. D) Laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 41. What does "arthr" refer to A) The joints. B) The bones. C) To fats. D) The heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The joints. 42. What does the root word bio mean? A) Animal. B) Life. C) Growth. D) Plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 43. The doctor gave me an ..... to help me feel better. A) Antibiotic. B) Audible. C) Auditory. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antibiotic. 44. What does the root word hydro mean? A) Wind. B) Water. C) Technology. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 45. Patriarch (noun) A) Group led by government. B) Group led by dogs. C) Group led by women. D) Group led by men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Group led by men. 46. The study of life A) Geography. B) Geology. C) Biology. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biography. 47. Sym is Greek root word that means- A) Together. B) Time. C) Same. D) Together and Same. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Together and Same. 48. What does the root word gemma mean? A) Gemni. B) Time. C) Space. D) Gem/ jewel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gem/ jewel. 49. What does the Greek root "man" mean? A) Life. B) Water. C) Hand. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hand. 50. Someone or something that is honest and believable is A) Credential. B) Incredulous. C) Creed. D) Credible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Credible. 51. Name the root word in sadly. A) Ad. B) Sadly. C) Sad. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sad. 52. What does the root word ..... SUB mean? A) Greater than. B) Less than. C) Under. D) With; together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under. 53. What does hydra mean? A) Head. B) Foot. C) Air. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 54. Before school = ..... A) Reschool. B) Preschool. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Preschool. 55. What word names the hobby or study of how light records an image using a camera? A) Bibliography. B) Cartography. C) Photography. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photography. 56. Which of the following is not a product of the root word "danger" ? A) Anger. B) Dangerous. C) Endanger. D) Dangers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anger. 57. If a word has the Greek root bio-in it, what does it stand for? A) Animals. B) Earth. C) Life. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 58. Aut is a Greek prefix that means- A) Self. B) Carry. C) Measure. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 59. Given this word family, what do you think the root man means?ManualManageManeuver A) Speak. B) Go. C) Shape. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hand. 60. This root word means study or "the study of" A) -sci-. B) -mem-. C) -graph-. D) -ology-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ology-. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books