This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the base word of helpful? A) Help. B) Dis-. C) -ful. D) Bio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help. 2. The prefix de-(as in decrease, deconstruct) means ..... A) Not, opposite of. B) To go down. C) To destroy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not, opposite of. 3. What is the impact of the prefix "mis-" in the word "mislead" ? A) Makes the word negative. B) Indicates time. C) Indicates a location. D) Makes the word positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Makes the word negative. 4. Identify the root word in the word below.ungrateful A) Un. B) Grate. C) Ful. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grate. 5. The Greek roots graph means A) Data. B) Carry or bring. C) Break or burst. D) Written, drawn, or recorded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Written, drawn, or recorded. 6. What is the meaning of the root word "port" A) Sound. B) Time. C) Word. D) Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carry. 7. The fortress was surrounded by a steel gate. A) Root. B) Suffix. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Root. 8. Monica is very tired. She wants to rest! Trina can't stay still. She always wants to move! She is rest ..... A) Ful. B) Less. C) Able. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 9. The prefix pro-means: A) Forward/before. B) Positive. C) After. D) Within. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forward/before. 10. Which SUFFIX means the state of? A) -ity, -ty. B) -ing. C) -ion, -tion. D) -ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ity, -ty. 11. What does the root chrono mean? A) Time. B) Many. C) Sound. D) Ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 12. To bring someone or something a step down; to treat someone with disrespect. A) Activate. B) Gradual. C) Actual. D) Degrade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Degrade. 13. Which of the following is a synonym of the prefix 'syn-'? A) Un-. B) Co-. C) Anti-. D) Dis-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Co-. 14. Match the root/affix with its meaningped A) Child or foot. B) Small. C) Full of. D) Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Child or foot. 15. In which word does pre-have the same meaning as it does in predicting? A) Prestige. B) Prefer. C) Predator. D) Pretty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefer. 16. If you add the suffix "-able/-ible" to a word, what is the new meaning that is given to the word?Example:read+able=readable A) Can be done. B) Full of. C) One who. D) Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can be done. 17. What does inter mean? A) After. B) To break. C) To speak. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between. 18. What is the meaning of the Greek root meter? A) Body. B) Great, large. C) Measure. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Measure. 19. A photograph uses what to take a picture? A) To write. B) Dark. C) Light. D) Shades. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 20. What does the word "darkness" mean?The lamp suddenly went out, leaving us in darkness. A) Absence of light. B) Doesn't make sense. C) Not fed enough. D) Having varied colors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absence of light. 21. Which root means to carry? A) Mit. B) Ject. C) Cred. D) Port. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Port. 22. What is the meaning of the following root/affix?graph A) From Latin, meaning to carry. B) From Latin, meaning field. C) From Greek, meaning to measure. D) From Greek, meaning to write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From Greek, meaning to write. 23. The root jur means law. What does the word jurisprudence mean? A) The study of military strategy. B) The study of human behavior and interaction. C) The study of legal principals. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of legal principals. 24. Match the word "impossible" with its definition. A) Likely to happen. B) Not able to occur. C) Capable of being done. D) Easy to achieve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not able to occur. 25. The word "interrupt" appears in your reading. Using your knowledge of Latin roots and affixes, explain how you would determine its meaning and select the correct definition. A) To build up. B) To break into or stop the flow. C) To continue smoothly. D) To write down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To break into or stop the flow. 26. What does the suffix "-tion" mean? A) Away from. B) Not. C) State of. D) Toward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) State of. 27. What does the suffix ation mean? A) The suffix 'ation' refers to a person who performs an action. B) The suffix 'ation' means act of or state of. C) The suffix 'ation' means a type of measurement. D) The suffix 'ation' indicates a location or place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The suffix 'ation' means act of or state of. 28. Based on your understanding of root words, what is the best definition of aquaphobia? A) The fear of water. B) Full of water. C) The love of water. D) Fear of the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fear of water. 29. What is the meaning of the prefix 'syn-'? A) Before or in front of. B) Without or not. C) Opposite or against. D) Together or with. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Together or with. 30. In order to ..... work disruption, we will be installing the computers overs a period of two weeks. A) Minimum. B) Minimize. C) Minimizes. D) Minimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minimize. 31. Use the root bio to infer what a biological oceanographer studies. A) Storms in the ocean. B) Ocean pollution. C) Life in the ocean. D) Ocean currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life in the ocean. 32. I'll ..... the money I owe my sister next week. A) Remake. B) Repay. C) Reenter. D) Recount. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repay. 33. The state in which a large amount of water has been lost or removed A) Dehydrated. B) Hydrant. C) Hydraulic. D) Hydrate. E) Hydroplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dehydrated. 34. The blissful silence was suddenly ended by the loud ..... of falling pots and pans. A) Pantheism. B) Prospectus. C) Hypobang. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cacophony. 35. Muddiness created by stirring up sediment or by having foreign particles suspended A) Turbine. B) Turbulence. C) Exasperation. D) Turbidity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turbidity. 36. The prefixes un-, non-, and dis-mean A) Against. B) Sound. C) Not. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 37. Rohan was organizing a birthday celebration and wanted it to be "extravagant." Which word best characterizes his celebration? A) Ordinary. B) Lavish. C) Simple. D) Modest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lavish. 38. What does the word "misplace" mean? A) In a placed way. B) Full of place. C) Place again. D) To put in the wrong place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To put in the wrong place. 39. The main part of a word that holds basic meaning A) Suffix. B) Synonym. C) Root. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root. 40. Roots:dent, dont A) Out of. B) Tooth. C) Equal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tooth. 41. You encounter the word "astronaut" in a science book. Using your understanding of Greek roots, reason out its meaning and choose the best definition. A) A person who studies plants. B) A person who studies rocks. C) A person who writes books. D) A person who travels in space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A person who travels in space. 42. In the word "deconstructionist, " what is the prefix? A) Struct. B) Tion. C) De. D) Con. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) De. 43. What is the meaning of the following root/affix?auto- A) From Greek, meaning to measure. B) From Latin meaning field. C) From Greek, meaning self. D) From Latin, meaning across. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From Greek, meaning self. 44. -sion, -tion are suffixes that mean ..... A) Against. B) State of Being. C) From, Away. D) Walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State of Being. 45. Select the root word that means "believe" A) Graph. B) Cred. C) Ped, pod. D) Aud, audi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cred. 46. Commotion, agitation A) -ance. B) -ulence. C) -ation. D) Turb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turb. 47. What is the BASIC PART OF THE WORD which shows its main meaning, to which other parts can be added A) Suffix. B) Prefix. C) Affix. D) Root. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Root. 48. Identify the prefix in the word "subordinate" . A) Bord. B) Ordinate. C) E. D) Sub. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sub. 49. The prefixes sym-and syn-mean: A) Together. B) Different. C) Broken. D) Toward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Together. 50. The neighbors all opposed a landfill being built in the neighborhood because they feared it would ..... their properties. A) Parabolic. B) Devalue. C) Dissect. D) Synergize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Devalue. 51. I hoped that my tumor was ..... Which word makes the MOST sense in this sentence? A) Benign. B) Malignant. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benign. 52. The buzz of the bees alerted us to get away from the holly bush.Which literary device is used in the above sentence? A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 53. Using your knowledge of roots, what does the word "television" mean? A) Seeing far. B) Writing far. C) Speaking far. D) Hearing far. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seeing far. 54. To preview something is to ..... A) Not view. B) View after. C) View again. D) View before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) View before. 55. Instead of going to college, my uncle went to a vocational school. That's where he learned to be an auto mechanic. What is the meaning of the root word voc-as it is used in the word vocational? A) Call. B) Follow. C) Flee. D) Female. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Call. 56. To rely on something or someone for support you need to ..... A) Impending. B) Dispense. C) Independent. D) Depend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Depend. 57. Quis means to search. Which of the following does not belong? A) Quad. B) Quest. C) Inquisition. D) Query. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quad. 58. We need a strong leader to unify our country. Unify means A) To make it come together. B) To divide into 2 parts. C) To turn into liquid. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make it come together. 59. The suffix-al (as in musical, biblical) means ..... A) Having characteristics of. B) A person who likes music. C) Something in the bible. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having characteristics of. 60. The prefix a-can also mean: A) Together/with. B) In front of/before. C) Without/not. D) After/following. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Without/not. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoots Affixes Quiz 1Roots Affixes Quiz 2Roots Affixes Quiz 3Roots Affixes Quiz 4Roots Affixes Quiz 5Roots Affixes Quiz 6Roots Affixes Quiz 7Roots Affixes Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books