This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the meaning of port? A) Having characteristics of. B) To carry. C) How something. D) Across; change; through. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To carry. 2. The Latin root 'scrib/script' means A) Listen. B) Write. C) Read. D) Speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 3. In the word 'transport', what does the prefix 'trans-' mean? A) Before. B) After. C) Across. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Across. 4. Which root means life? A) Bio. B) Voc. C) Vac. D) Scrib. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bio. 5. If something is misshaped, it is ..... A) Shaped wrong. B) Shaped like a circle. C) Shaped in the middle. D) Shaped by hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaped wrong. 6. During a vocabulary lesson, Aria asked her teacher about the origin of the word "natural." The teacher explained that it is derived from the Latin root "natus." What does this root mean? A) Created. B) Born. C) Destroyed. D) Artificial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Born. 7. An action or process A) -idity. B) -ine. C) -ation. D) -ulence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ation. 8. What is the meaning of graph? A) Write. B) Same. C) Lead; make. D) Different. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Write. 9. The root word geo means: A) Earth, ground. B) Growth, abundance. C) Life, living. D) Map, chart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth, ground. 10. What is the meaning of prefix "hypo-" A) Not. B) Above. C) Below. D) Opposite/against. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Below. 11. What is the meaning of the suffix "-ive" ? A) Inclined to; likely to. B) Above. C) Move across. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inclined to; likely to. 12. Select the meaning of the root or affix:er A) Three. B) Not. C) One who. D) State of being. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One who. 13. Don't unbuckle your seat while the car is in motion.What does unbuckle mean? A) Do the opposite of buckle. B) Buckle before. C) Buckle before. D) Full of buckles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do the opposite of buckle. 14. A prefix is added in front of the root word which gives new meaning to the word as a whole. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 15. What is the meaning of pre-? A) Before. B) Far, distant. C) Together. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before. 16. What does the root port mean? A) To see. B) To carry. C) For / forward. D) Distance / far / across. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To carry. 17. Using your knowledge of roots and affixes, what does amphibious mean? A) Possessing the full abilities of both ways. B) Both are full. C) Characteristic of amplitude. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Possessing the full abilities of both ways. 18. What does un mean? A) Life. B) Book. C) Star. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not. 19. My benefactor steals from me all of the time.Does the word benefactor make sense in this sentence? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 20. What is the meaning of the suffix '-ment'? A) The Study of. B) Brother. C) State of Being. D) Action or process. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Action or process. 21. $_{Use your knowledge of roots/prefixes to determine the meaning of the word}$malnutrition A) Writing about someone else's life. B) Having plenty of nutritious food. C) Having bad/poor nutrition. D) Having a short life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having bad/poor nutrition. 22. A medical doctor, especially a doctor who is not a surgeon A) Phonics. B) Reporter. C) Physician. D) Homophone. E) -er, -or, -ian, -ist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physician. 23. The student broke the rules about tucking in her shirt; eventually, she earned a detention for her many dress code ..... A) Benevolence. B) Orthographics. C) Infractions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infractions. 24. The root of acute means: A) Hard. B) Sharp. C) Soft. D) Smooth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sharp. 25. A person receiving a telegraph can read the message because it is written on paper. Which part of the word telegraph is related to writing? A) Tele. B) Graph. C) Telegraph. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graph. 26. Which word has the prefix meaning "all" ? A) Hypodermic. B) Retrofit. C) Pandemic. D) Benefit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pandemic. 27. Find the correct spelling word to complete the sentence.Donna is ..... her puppy. A) Names. B) Named. C) Naming. D) Nameing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naming. 28. Which root/affix means:two A) Fac/fact/fect/fic. B) -ify. C) Di-. D) Dia. E) Helios. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Di-. 29. Which root means "to see" or "to look" ? A) Aud. B) Ible/able. C) Fore. D) Spect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spect. 30. What does the suffix-ed mean? A) Full of. B) Past tense / in the past. C) More than one. D) Present tense / happening now. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past tense / in the past. 31. Root words carry a universal meaning, so no matter who is using the root, the core meaning will remain the same. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 32. What is the meaning of the root pre-? A) After or following. B) During or while. C) Without or lacking. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before. 33. What is the meaning of the affix in the word beautiful? A) Again. B) In the manner of. C) Small. D) Full of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Full of. 34. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank:The SETI project (or Search for Extraterrestrial Life) searches for ..... like radio signals from space that might come from alien civilizations. A) Transgressions. B) Transmutations. C) Transparencies. D) Transmissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transmissions. 35. What is the meaning of the root multi-? A) Single. B) Unique. C) Solitary. D) Many or multiple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many or multiple. 36. Seventy-eight year old Bill Baxter has ..... completed his third marathon. A) Successfully. B) Successful. C) Successfull. D) Successfuly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Successfully. 37. What is the definition of 'affix' in linguistics? A) A morpheme that is attached to a word to modify its meaning, including prefixes and suffixes. B) A type of word that stands alone and does not require any additional morphemes. C) A grammatical rule that dictates the order of words in a sentence. D) A sound that is added to the beginning of a word to change its pronunciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A morpheme that is attached to a word to modify its meaning, including prefixes and suffixes. 38. Only an hour or so had passed before a tremendous roar shook the ground. At that very moment, a strange grey creature materialized before our eyes. It resembled a lizard in shape. It was about ten feet high at the shoulders and at least fifty feet long. What did the creature do? A) It whipped its tail back and forth. B) It stamped its feet. C) It showed its sharp teeth. D) It appeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It appeared. 39. The Greek root bio means A) Earth. B) Warm. C) Life. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 40. Add the suffix '-able' to the word 'comfort' to create a new word. A) Comforting. B) Comforted. C) Comfortable. D) Comfortless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comfortable. 41. Select the meaning of the root or affix:ness A) From afar, distance. B) State of being. C) Not. D) Again. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State of being. 42. Civ is a root that means ..... A) Straight, Correct. B) Hear. C) Citizen. D) Walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Citizen. 43. The chocolate is morphing in the heat. A) Prefix. B) Root. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Root. 44. What does the prefix "mega-" mean? A) Great/huge. B) Small. C) After/following. D) Relating to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great/huge. 45. If a student wanted to find out who won the World Series in 2010, which resource could be used? A) Thesaurus. B) Dictionary. C) Atlas. D) Almanac. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Almanac. 46. What does the prefix ambi-mean? A) Many. B) Both. C) Worthy, capable of. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both. 47. The science of life is called: A) Pshychology. B) Biology. C) Sociology. D) Cardiology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biology. 48. What is the meaning of the root equ? A) Equal or same. B) Different. C) Unequal. D) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equal or same. 49. Wouldn't it be cool if we could teleport to Spain? I really want to see the World Cup. What is the meaning of the prefix tele-as it is used in the word teleport? A) Far/distance. B) World. C) Death. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Far/distance. 50. The root word agree had the prefix dis added to the beginning of it. What does the prefix do to the root? A) It makes the verb a noun. B) It makes the noun an adjective. C) It makes the adjective a verb. D) It doesn't change the word's word type. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It doesn't change the word's word type. 51. What is the meaning of "malpractice" as it is used below?The doctors showed medical malpractice when they prescribed the wrong medication. A) Strange. B) Incorrect. C) Immature. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bad. 52. What do many prefixes and suffixes have in common? They are derived from ..... A) Arabic and Farsi words. B) Chinese and Korean words. C) French and German words. D) Greek and Latin words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greek and Latin words. 53. What is the meaning of the Latin root cred? A) Believe. B) Time. C) Birth. D) Brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Believe. 54. What is the meaning of the root "super" ? A) The study of. B) Above. C) Likely to. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Above. 55. We had to do everything ..... because the machines stopped working. A) Benevolently. B) Maliciously. C) Manually. D) Logically. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manually. 56. Which prefix means "equal" ? A) Omni. B) Com, con. C) A, ab, abs. D) Equi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Equi. 57. The suffix-ly is used to describe how something is done. The word overly means ..... A) To do something over the extent needed. B) To do something under the extent needed. C) To do something with great enthusiasm. D) To do something without secrecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To do something over the extent needed. 58. Which word has the root word meaning "alive or life?" A) Survive. B) Surrender. C) Submit. D) Superior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survive. 59. What is the meaning of the suffixes-er and-or? A) Person who. B) Place where. C) Study of. D) Someone who fears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person who. 60. What is the meaning of the root "trans" ? A) Extending across, through, or over. B) Light. C) Inclined to; likely to. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extending across, through, or over. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books