This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does don mean? A) Center. B) Shape. C) Give. D) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give. 2. The speaker was very ..... when they talked. A) Audience. B) Auditorium. C) Audible. D) Audition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audible. 3. What does the root word neo mean? A) New. B) Neon. C) Wish. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New. 4. A telescope allows you to see things that are A) Far away. B) Small. C) Up close. D) Not really there. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Far away. 5. What does pod mean? A) Foot. B) Carry. C) Loosen. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot. 6. Millimeter ..... A) Measure. B) Math. C) Giggle. D) Speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Measure. 7. I went to a ..... for teachers. People came from all over the state to learn new ways to teach and study new research. A) Convention. B) Convent. C) Prevent. D) Invention. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convention. 8. Think about the root words in "telephone" . What does this word mean? A) A far away sound. B) A small sound. C) To watch from far away. D) Moving far away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A far away sound. 9. What does "osteo" refer to A) Bones. B) Heart. C) Too high. D) Too low. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones. 10. This root word means mindful, recall, remember A) -sci-. B) -bio-. C) -ology-. D) -mem-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -mem-. 11. What rule had father broken? A) He asked for three children. B) He stole something from work. C) He walked to work instead of riding his bicycle. D) He looked up Gabriel's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He looked up Gabriel's name. 12. What does mob mean? A) Move. B) Carry. C) Shout. D) Step. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Move. 13. Root word meaning to see A) Graphy. B) View/at. C) Phon. D) Aud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) View/at. 14. The teacher encouraged her students to engage in pursuits of philanthropy during the holiday season, so all the elderly townspeople would be cared for. What does the root word "anthrop" mean in "philanthropy?" A) Say. B) Human. C) Law or justice. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human. 15. Which root word means to throw? A) With. B) Ject. C) Vert. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ject. 16. The bottom part of a fraction. A) Denominator. B) Numerator. C) Y-coordinate. D) X-coordinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denominator. 17. What does aqua-mean? A) Water. B) Good or well. C) Star. D) Soul or life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 18. Given this word family, what do you think the root auto mean?AutographAutomobileAutobiography A) Self. B) One. C) Water. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 19. "gram/graph" means ..... A) Writing/drawing. B) See/watch. C) To see. D) To move. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Writing/drawing. 20. What does the root word ..... AD mean? A) Fair. B) Having to do with. C) To; toward. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To; toward. 21. Which of these studies things related to the earth? A) Chronologist. B) Geologist. C) Biologist. D) Aquaologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geologist. 22. Believe or trust A) Srib. B) Tract. C) Cred. D) Vac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cred. 23. Which of the following words contains the Latin root "uni" ? A) Bilingual. B) Universe. C) Geology. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Universe. 24. What does imag mean? A) City. B) Shout. C) Shorten. D) Likeness/like. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Likeness/like. 25. What does the Latin root "pre" signify? A) Sound. B) After. C) Earth. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before. 26. "phon/phone" means ..... A) Far. B) Sound. C) Small. D) To move. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 27. Heard or able to be heard A) Audition audition. B) Audible. C) Audience audience. D) Audio audio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audible. 28. Terr-means ..... A) Light. B) Land/Earth. C) Life. D) Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Land/Earth. 29. Identify the root words in geographer. A) Her. B) Graph. C) Geo/graph. D) Geo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geo/graph. 30. Dict means ..... A) To listen. B) To speak. C) Space. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To speak. 31. Port+er means (port-:carry) A) Carrier. B) Driver. C) Shipper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrier. 32. The Greek word phys means: A) Land. B) Sea. C) Nature. D) Flesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 33. Which word had the root word in it that means light? A) Spectacular. B) Temporary. C) Photograph. D) Telegraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photograph. 34. The greek root PATH means? A) Talking & singing. B) Sleeping & breathing. C) Feeling and suffering. D) Digging & planting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feeling and suffering. 35. Think about the root words in "automotive" . What does the word mean? A) To motivate yourself. B) To move by itself. C) To draw something moving. D) To move far away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To move by itself. 36. What is the root word for falls? A) Falling. B) All. C) Fall. D) Ling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fall. 37. The root word for "the study of/one who studies" is ..... A) Gram/graph. B) At/show. C) Ology/ologist. D) Scop/scope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ology/ologist. 38. What is the root word of sleeping? A) Sleeping. B) Sleep. C) Sleeps. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sleep. 39. Which root means far A) Fin. B) Form. C) Tele. D) Tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tele. 40. Name the root word in undone. A) Done. B) And. C) I have sinned. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Done. 41. The word photograph contains the root photo. What does the root photo mean? A) Write or draw. B) Light. C) Far away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light. 42. Belief or to believe A) Port. B) Ab. C) Tele. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cred. 43. What is the root word of the word "government" ? A) Govern. B) Ment. C) Gov. D) Vern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Govern. 44. What does "thromb" refer to A) Skin. B) Clot. C) Chemical. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clot. 45. What is the root word for unhappy? A) And. B) Hap. C) Y. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happy. 46. ..... onomy ( Greek word meaning "stars") A) Graph. B) Port. C) Fin. D) Astr. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astr. 47. This root word means-to say A) Geo. B) Dict. C) Anti. D) Chron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dict. 48. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... is the study of life. A) Biology. B) Hematology. C) Social Science. D) Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biology. 49. What does the root viv mean? A) To throw or toss. B) Health. C) Life, live. D) To speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life, live. 50. If we add an "re" to try what would the meaning be? A) Not try. B) Try again. C) Try all the time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Try again. 51. Which root word means "to see" ? A) Aud. B) View/at. C) Phon. D) Graphy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) View/at. 52. I will transport the materials to the correct location. Transport means ..... A) Write. B) Time. C) Carry. D) Speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry. 53. Which of the following is the meaning of dictator? A) Someone who tells others what to do. B) Someone who shares water. C) Someone who lives far away. D) Someone who looks at or spies on others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who tells others what to do. 54. The football player intercepted the ball. What does the word inter mean? A) Above. B) Between. C) Below. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Between. 55. Look at the roots below. Which one means life? A) Graph. B) Phon. C) Bio. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bio. 56. The root "ambi-" in ambiguous means A) Hand. B) Both. C) Water. D) Unique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both. 57. What is the root word for Children? A) Child. B) In. C) Ren. D) Chill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Child. 58. What is the root word for making? A) Maki. B) Mak. C) Ing. D) Make. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Make. 59. What is the root word of camping? A) Camp. B) Camping. C) Ing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Camp. 60. What is the meaning of the root liter? A) Grain. B) Letter. C) Contest. D) Lead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Letter. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books