This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The young man always drives ..... on the road. A) Careful. B) Care. C) Carefully. D) Caring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carefully. 2. Which root means to send? A) Lum. B) Mit. C) Dict. D) Rupt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mit. 3. If the root word "voc" means "call" , then what might the word "provocate" mean? A) Someone who calls something. B) To call someone or something forward; to call out, or challenge someone. C) The action of calling someone or something. D) To yell at someone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To call someone or something forward; to call out, or challenge someone. 4. What is the significance of understanding roots and affixes in vocabulary development? A) It helps in memorizing vocabulary lists. B) It allows for guessing the meanings of familiar words only. C) Understanding roots and affixes helps in decoding the meanings of unfamiliar words and enhances vocabulary. D) It is only useful for learning foreign languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understanding roots and affixes helps in decoding the meanings of unfamiliar words and enhances vocabulary. 5. Prefixes are word parts (affixes) that comes at the ..... of the root word or base word. A) Beginning. B) Middle. C) EndTagsELAGSE8L4b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beginning. 6. In "silently, " what part of speech is the root word? A) Adjective. B) Verb. C) Noun. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb. 7. A person's name signed by that person is a/an- A) Scripture. B) Automatic. C) Autograph. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autograph. 8. Every single day A) Daily. B) Quickly. C) Sincerely. D) Annually. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daily. 9. The root word bi-is A) Happy. B) Two or twice. C) Both. D) ?????. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two or twice. 10. Jimmy Bob is capable of tying his shoes. The suffix-able in the word capable lets you know that Jimmy Bob is ..... to tie his shoes. A) Able. B) Trying. C) Scared. D) Not able. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able. 11. What does the suffix "-logy" mean? example:biology A) Sound. B) Life. C) Study of. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study of. 12. To say or state again A) Repay. B) Rebuild. C) Recharge. D) Restate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restate. 13. Using his powerful ..... , Ingmara was able to retrieve the remote control from the desk across the large room without having to get up off the couch. A) Parabola. B) Telekinesis. C) Ventriloquism. D) Toxicity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telekinesis. 14. The word "downtime" means ..... A) Time when you are not working or busy. B) Other than the usual. C) Very accurate and exact. D) Showing or feeling embarrassment especially because you have done something foolish or wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time when you are not working or busy. 15. Prefixes:dis-, un- A) Not; without. B) Upon. C) In. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not; without. 16. Kamora is learning how to change words in her English class. She discovers that adding a group of letters to the start of a word can change its meaning. What do we call this group of letters? A) Postfix. B) Prefix. C) Suffix. D) Infix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefix. 17. What is the meaning of aut/auto? A) To hear. B) Self. C) Against; opposed to. D) Study of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self. 18. Using the prefix of the following words, determine the common meaning:intercepted, intersection, international A) From, out. B) Between, among. C) Together, with. D) Around, about. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Between, among. 19. Add a prefix to polite to mean not polite. A) Repolite. B) Dispolite. C) Impolite. D) Unpolite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impolite. 20. What is the meaning of the following root/affix?meter A) Describes an action or the result of an action. B) From Greek meaning to measure. C) Describes a quality or condition. D) From Greek, meaning far away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From Greek meaning to measure. 21. The root of temporary means: A) Time. B) Short. C) Cold. D) Brief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 22. What does the root "graph" in the word "autograph" mean? A) Self. B) Write. C) Far. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 23. The word "verify" means ..... A) To prove, show, find out, or state that something is true or correct. B) Other than the usual. C) A word from which other words are formed. D) Very accurate and exact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To prove, show, find out, or state that something is true or correct. 24. If you added the suffix "-ness" to the adjective "happy, " what would happen? (happiness) A) It would become a noun. B) It would remain an adjective. C) It would become an adverb. D) It would become a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It would become a noun. 25. A group of letters that goes in front of a root word to alter the meaning A) Prefix. B) Affix. C) Suffix. D) Root. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 26. If I draw a line across a circle through its midpoint, I measure the ..... A) Circumference. B) Diameter. C) Diagram. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diameter. 27. You can add suffix "ed" at ..... A) The beginning of a word. B) The end of a word. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The end of a word. 28. They ..... to ..... a movie but the TV was broken A) Tried / watch. B) Try / watches. C) Tries / watches. D) Tried / watched. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tried / watch. 29. Which word has the prefix meaning "good" ? A) Retrofit. B) Pandemic. C) Malicious. D) Benefit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benefit. 30. Fill in the blank:Jackson's garden seeds remained ..... until the spring rains arrived. A) Natural. B) Novel. C) Manual. D) Dormant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dormant. 31. Select the meaning of the root or affix:micro A) Large. B) Near. C) Small. D) Apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small. 32. The root "pathos" means- A) Feeling or disease. B) Light, bright, clear. C) Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling or disease. 33. Which word includes the Latin root for "sea" ? A) Conscience. B) Hydrate. C) Mariner. D) Memoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mariner. 34. What does the suffix "-ment" mean in the word "enjoyment" ? A) State of. B) Capable of. C) Act of. D) Full of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) State of. 35. Since mono-means one and log-/logy means speech; study, which word means a long speech from one person? A) Epilogue. B) Dialogue. C) Text EvidenceTagsELAGSE8L4b. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 36. I preview the read aloud everyday before I read it aloud.What does preview mean? A) View before. B) Not view. C) View without you. D) Mostly view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) View before. 37. Suffixes are word parts (affixes) that come at the ..... of the root word or base word. A) Beginning. B) Middle. C) EndTagsELAGSE8L4b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EndTagsELAGSE8L4b. 38. A passage uses the word "submarine." Using your knowledge of Latin roots and affixes, explain how you would figure out its meaning and select the correct definition. A) A vehicle that flies in the air. B) A vehicle that travels under the sea. C) A vehicle that travels on land. D) A vehicle that travels in space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A vehicle that travels under the sea. 39. Fill in the Blank:The root "mar/i" means ..... A) Air. B) Earth. C) Swamp. D) Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sea. 40. Cookies compliment milk. Compliment means ..... A) Does not go together. B) I'm not sure. C) None of the above. D) Goes well with. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Goes well with. 41. The student typed their homework but then could not find it to turn it in, so she had to ..... it so that it would not be late. A) Retype. B) Read. C) Review. D) Repair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Retype. 42. Choose the correct spelling for the root word:stretch A) Streched. B) Stretched. C) Chreched. D) Schretced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stretched. 43. The root temp means A) Time. B) Good, well. C) Bad, evil. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 44. Ad-is prefix that means A) Color. B) Against. C) To Toward. D) Walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Toward. 45. Remember bi= two, so bifocals mean ..... Choose the BEST answer ..... A) Glasses for eyes. B) ????. C) Glasses with two different different lenses, to focus with eyes. D) Something old people wear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glasses with two different different lenses, to focus with eyes. 46. In the word "decomposition, " what is the root word? A) Tion. B) De. C) Position. D) Compos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compos. 47. What does the affix found in the word "graduation" mean? A) Succeed. B) Move. C) Change. D) Step. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Step. 48. The root puls means drive or push. What does the word propulsion mean? A) The state of being moved forward. B) The state of being too small to function properly. C) The state of being under construction. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The state of being moved forward. 49. After giving birth, the lioness will protect her cubs while the lion hunts. What is the meaning of the suffix-ess and it is used in the word lioness? A) Mael. B) King. C) Female. D) Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Female. 50. Which of the following mean "to see a doctor from far away" ? A) Reaction. B) Telegram. C) Megaphone. D) Teledoc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Teledoc. 51. Running a marathon is difficult, but after practicing every day for months I am ..... making progress. A) Graduate. B) Graduation. C) Sensitive. D) Gradually. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gradually. 52. Choose the word below that is past tense. A) Bed. B) Solved. C) Seed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solved. 53. Some stars don't want paparazzi to invade their ..... A) Privative. B) Prize. C) Private. D) Privacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Privacy. 54. The prefix anti-means A) Related, family. B) Opposite, against. C) Old, ancient. D) Away, apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite, against. 55. Which prefix means across? A) Multi. B) Anti. C) Trans. D) Sub. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trans. 56. Change the adjective to adverb:late A) Lateely. B) Late. C) Lately. D) Latelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Late. 57. If something is described as "historical, " what does the suffix-ical tell you? A) It is not related to history. B) It is related to history. C) It is a new event. D) It is a funny event. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is related to history. 58. What root word means "burst" A) Rupt. B) Meter. C) Therm. D) Grad, gres. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rupt. 59. $_{Use your knowledge of roots/prefixes to determine the meaning of the word}$tempus fugit A) "Write beautifully!" (in Latin). B) "Time flies!" (in Latin). C) "Be good!" (in Latin). D) "Be evil!" (in Latin). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Time flies!" (in Latin). 60. Ava is afraid of being in elevators and small rooms. The suffix "-phobia" in "claustrophobia" means fear. What does the prefix "claustro-" mean? A) Open spaces. B) Confined spaces. 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