This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ambi-/Amphi-means ..... A) Light. B) Land. C) All. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both. 2. The root word TRI means ..... A) Two. B) To carry. C) Water. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three. 3. The Olympic divers were ..... when performing their triple back flips. A) Chronicle. B) Synchronized. C) Chronometer. D) Chronological. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synchronized. 4. Which root word means "to hear or listen" ? A) Graphy. B) View/at. C) Aud. D) Phon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aud. 5. Which root word means "to build" ? A) Spec. B) Liter. C) Vent. D) Struct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Struct. 6. Which word is a synonym for ELABORATE? A) Philosophy. B) Elucidate. C) Visible. D) Evident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elucidate. 7. What does aero mean? A) Like. B) Step. C) Shorten. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Air. 8. A group of people who gather together to listen to or watch something; the people who watch, read, or listen to something A) Audition. B) Audible. C) Audio. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audience. 9. Word meaning multiplication. A) Difference. B) Product. C) Quotient. D) Sum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Product. 10. Think about the root words in "autograph" . What does this word mean? A) A small writing/drawing. B) A self writing/drawing. C) A far away sound. D) The study of one's self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A self writing/drawing. 11. Identify the root word in prescription. A) Pre. B) Script. C) Tion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Script. 12. When a jury makes a decision in a trial, they give a ..... A) Verdict. B) Predict. C) Dictation. D) Contradict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verdict. 13. This root word means-life A) Graph. B) Dict. C) Aud. D) Bio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bio. 14. Which word has a suffix? A) Hopeless. B) Create. C) Biohazard. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hopeless. 15. This is a place where the audience can watch and listen to something A) Auditory. B) Audio. C) Auditorium. D) Audible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auditorium. 16. When interviewing for the 7th grade English position at Moody Middle School, Madeline had to show proof of her Virginia teaching credential to the administration panel. What does the root word "cred" mean in the word "credential?" A) Believe or trust. B) Lead. C) Hang or weigh. D) Drive or push. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Believe or trust. 17. Port is a Latin root word that means- A) Light. B) To say. C) To Carry. D) Written. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Carry. 18. Which of the following words contains the Greek root "geo" ? A) Antibiotic. B) Biography. C) Phonology. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geography. 19. EXTRA QUESTION! Graph means ..... A) Line. B) Light. C) Record. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Record. 20. This root word means to carry A) Port. B) Hydr. C) Phon. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Port. 21. What does the root word "log or logue" mean?Example:dialogue A) Light. B) Word. C) Star. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Word. 22. The word automobile contains the root auto. What does the root auto mean? A) Pull or drag. B) Own or self. C) Carry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Own or self. 23. What is the root word for performance? A) Perform. B) Form. C) For. D) Per. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perform. 24. What is the root word for faithful? A) Fulness. B) Ful. C) Faith. D) Fa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faith. 25. Which word has the SAME root word as talking? A) Talked. B) Taking. C) Take. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Talked. 26. Fugett Middle School might be the ..... of skate park out back if a generous benefactor decided that it would make our school a better place. A) Bona fide. B) Bookish. C) Beneficiary. D) Benevolent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beneficiary. 27. Given this word family, what do you think the root port means?TransportExportPorter A) Three. B) Under. C) Less. D) Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carry. 28. "tele" means ..... A) Self. B) Far. C) To move. D) See/watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far. 29. What does cap mean? A) Center. B) Head. C) Shout. D) Part. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Head. 30. Meaning of Meter A) Look. B) Measure. C) Write. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Measure. 31. What is the root word of looked? A) Ed. B) Looking. C) Look. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Look. 32. Con ..... rary (Latin root meaning "time") A) Phono. B) Aster. C) Spec. D) Tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tempo. 33. What is the root word for leader A) The. B) The. C) Lead. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lead. 34. Can you identify the antecedent that led to Cassandra's success at the skiing championships? What does the root word "ante" mean in "antecedent?" A) Both sides. B) Before. C) Opposite. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 35. The word "sitting" is a product of the root word sit. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 36. A student was not following school rules, so I had to deduct some dojo points. A) Remove. B) Add. C) Above, beyond. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Remove. 37. What does div mean? A) Divide/part. B) High. C) Tightly fixed. D) Loosen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divide/part. 38. What does the root word chrom mean? A) Light. B) Time. C) Color. D) New. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Color. 39. What does "psych" refer to A) Clot. B) Mind. C) Poison. D) Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mind. 40. A snake is ..... since it is capable of spontaneous movement. A) Biography. B) Benevolent. C) Remote. D) To the moth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To the moth. 41. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?"Wow! You sure have ..... fur!" said the boy. A) Softest. B) Softing. C) Soft. D) Softly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soft. 42. The Greek root chron means- A) Measure. B) Light. C) Look. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time. 43. The word autograph contains the root graph. What does the root graph mean? A) Shapes or lines. B) Write or draw. C) Measure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write or draw. 44. What word names the type of book that was written about a person's life but was written by a different person than the subject of the book? A) Photography. B) Cartography. C) Biography. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biography. 45. Given this word family, what do you think the root aqua means?AquariumAquamarineAquatic A) Under. B) Solid. C) Fire. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 46. The root word for "writing/drawing" is ..... A) At/show. B) Scop/scope. C) Gram/graph. D) Mob/against/mov. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gram/graph. 47. What does aud mean? A) To speak. B) To hear. C) Space. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To hear. 48. Given this word family, what do you think the root audi means?AudioAudienceAudition A) Small. B) Listen/hear. C) Together. D) Far. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Listen/hear. 49. What does astro mean? A) Space, stars, heaven. B) Food or drinks. C) Listen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Space, stars, heaven. 50. What is the root word for helpful? A) Ful. B) Hel. C) Help. D) Elp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Help. 51. If a lamp emits light, that means it ..... light. A) Hears. B) Sees. C) Sends out. D) Throws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sends out. 52. Name the root word in preheated. A) Eat. B) Pre. C) Eated. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat. 53. Which word means a star sailor? A) Acrobat. B) Biographer. C) Automobile. D) Astronaut. E) Antibacterial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astronaut. 54. What does the root word ..... IC/ TIC mean? A) Born. B) Having to do with. C) To; toward. D) Disease; feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having to do with. 55. Audible (root word:aud) means able to be ..... A) Seen. B) Touched. C) Heard. D) Smelled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heard. 56. What does the root word ..... OLOGY mean? A) To or toward. B) The study of. C) Across through. D) Having to do with. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of. 57. Which of the following is not a product of the root word "treat" ? A) Treated. B) Treats. C) Mistreat. D) Threat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Threat. 58. Name the root word in timer. A) Is. B) Time. C) Tim. D) Timer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 59. Meaning of suffix ward A) In the direction of. B) Not. C) Like having charaerized. D) Again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the direction of. 60. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... Lets hope the stickers ..... to the wall like we need them to. A) Adhere. B) Fall. C) Stay. D) Hold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adhere. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 8Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books