This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Nouns > Collective Nouns – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Collective Nouns Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He has a stamp ..... A) Collection. B) Troop. C) Litter. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collection. 2. Identify the collective noun: "The family packed food for a lunch at the park" . A) Food. B) Park. C) Lunch. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Family. 3. Identify the collective noun: "The faculty was called to the library for a meeting on Tuesday morning" . A) Called. B) Faculty. C) Library. D) Tuesday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faculty. 4. Which option correctly identifies all common nouns in the sentence? Would you rather have ice cream or a cupcake for dessert? A) You, ice cream, cupcake. B) You, cream, cupcake, dessert. C) Ice cream, cupcake, dessert. D) Cream, cupcake, desserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice cream, cupcake, dessert. 5. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The crew on our flight was very helpful. A) Flight. B) Crew. C) Helpful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crew. 6. A ..... of blood. A) Drop. B) Dynasty. C) Box. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drop. 7. What is the collective noun in the sentence? An army of ants marched across the picnic table. A) Ants. B) Army. C) Table. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Army. 8. What are the nouns in this sentence? In the summer we go to the lake. A) Lake. B) Summer, lake. C) We, lake. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summer, lake. 9. What is the collective noun in the sentence? I'm excited to go to Disney World with my family for spring break! A) Disney World. B) Spring break. C) With. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Family. 10. A soccer team in England is known as a football club. A) Team. B) Club. C) Team, club. D) Soccer, football. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Team, club. 11. Identify the collective noun(s) in the sentence:I have bought a bunch of books. A) Books. B) Have. C) Bunch. D) Bought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bunch. 12. The pride of lions were laying in the grass. A) Lions. B) Pride. C) Laying. D) Grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pride. 13. Choose the sentences that emphasizes the collective noun acting as individuals. A) The gymnastics team have been discussing practice times, but they can't agree. B) The gymnastics team has been discussing practice times, but they can't agree. C) The gymnastics team has been discussing practice times, but it can't agree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The gymnastics team has been discussing practice times, but it can't agree. 14. Which sentence has a collective noun? A) The leaves fell from the trees in the yard. B) My mother asked my friends and me to rake them. C) My father suggested that we form teams. D) We finished the job in less than an hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My father suggested that we form teams. 15. While at the zoo, I saw a ..... of zebras. A) Fleet. B) Herd. C) Knot. D) Library. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herd. 16. The class was late to lunch because they were talking. A) Lunch. B) Late. C) Class. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Class. 17. Identify the collective noun in the following sentence:A large flock of geese flew over the houses. A) Large. B) Flock. C) Houses. D) Geese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flock. 18. Mowgli was raised by a ..... of wolves. A) Deck. B) Pack. C) Litter. D) Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pack. 19. A ..... of musicians was hired to perform at the party. A) Troop. B) Gang. C) Band. D) Army. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Band. 20. During the Teacher's Day celebration, a ..... of dancers were invited to perform in our school. A) School. B) Group. C) Troupe. D) Pack. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troupe. 21. Which phrase contains a collective noun? A) A school of fish. B) A cup of tea. C) A pinch of salt. D) A friend of Ms. Sol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A school of fish. 22. What is the collective noun of flowers? A) A gang of flowers. B) A bunch of flowers. C) A set of flowers. D) A swarm of flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A bunch of flowers. 23. A ..... of wool. A) Drop. B) Ball. C) Cup. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball. 24. Each of these sentences contains a collective noun. Select the correct answer from the options that follow the sentence:The talent show featured several individual performers, along with three bands. A) How. B) Performers. C) Bands. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bands. 25. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The choir snag a song at the concert. A) Song. B) Concert. C) Choir. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choir. 26. A collective noun A) Is only used for animals. B) Always begins with a capital letter. C) Is always plural. D) Refers to a whole group of items/people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refers to a whole group of items/people. 27. This team is terrible at not being terrible. A) Abstract. B) Proper. C) Compound. D) Collective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collective. 28. Identify the collective noun in the sentence: A) Bunch. B) Vine. C) Grapes. D) Picked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bunch. 29. Fill in the two blanks. To emphasize group members acting as individuals, treat the collective noun as ..... and use a ..... verb. A) Singular/singular. B) Singular/plural. C) Plural/plural. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plural/plural. 30. Collective noun for players A) Tribe. B) Audience. C) Crew. D) Team. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Team. 31. Identify the collective noun in the following sentence:Our extended family includes great-grandparents and second cousins. A) Family. B) Great-grandparents. C) Cousins. D) Our. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Family. 32. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The army practiced their maneuvers all day. A) Army. B) Maneuvers. C) Day. D) Practiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Army. 33. While gathering nectar for the hive, a ..... of bees flew around. A) Crews. B) Families. C) Swarm. D) Herds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swarm. 34. Identify the sentence that has the collective noun underlined. A) Gretchen is the president of our committee. B) Gretchen is the president of our committee. C) Gretchen is the president of our committee. D) Gretchen is the president of our committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gretchen is the president of our committee. 35. (1) A flock of geese migrate south every fall. (2) If you look up in the sky and see a group of birds in a v-shaped formation, you are likely looking at a flock of geese. (3) If you see a gaggle of geese, that means there are a group of at least three geese. (4) I notice a gaggle that swims in the pond near my house. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1? A) Change geese to geeses. B) Change migrate to migrates. C) Change south to South. D) No change needed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Change migrate to migrates. 36. Which group shows collective nouns ONLY? A) Family, taxes, friends, geese, Falkland Islands. B) Crew, couple, herd, staff, Congress. C) Cousins, heard, pair, students, United States. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crew, couple, herd, staff, Congress. 37. "A school of wales are swimming in the ocean. "What of the collective noun can replace the underline word? A) Brood. B) Pod. C) Tiding. D) Yoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pod. 38. The diver saw a ..... of colourful fish swam passed by him into the underwater cave. A) Gang. B) Army. C) Collection. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) School. 39. Wendy saves a ..... of coins to buy a comic book. A) Set. B) Library. C) Harvest. D) Collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collection. 40. A ..... of locusts attacked a ..... of cattle. A) Gang, crew. B) Army, group. C) Swarm, herd. D) Flock, brood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swarm, herd. 41. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The staff at Walmart are always very helpful when you need to find an item. A) Walmart. B) Helpful. C) Item. D) Staff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Staff. 42. A ..... of honey. A) Slice. B) Jar. C) Piece. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jar. 43. There we saw a man carrying a ..... of clothes on his head. A) Group. B) Bundle. C) Gang. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bundle. 44. Identify the collective noun in the following sentence:After our performance, we joined hands and bowed toward the audience. A) Bowed. B) Audience. C) Our. D) We. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 45. Collective noun for books A) Pack. B) Galaxy. C) String. D) Library. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Library. 46. Choose the collective noun in the given sentence.I saw a troop of scouts marching by the road. A) Troop. B) Marching. C) Scouts. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troop. 47. A gaggle of geese flew above our head. A) Geese. B) Gaggle. C) Flew. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gaggle. 48. Collective noun for listeners A) Audience. B) Staff. C) Gang. D) Army. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience. 49. Identify the collective noun in the following sentence:The senate will be voting on three education funding bills tomorrow. A) Bills. B) Three. C) Education. D) Senate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Senate. 50. Identify the collective noun: "The committee was planning to meet after school on Tuesday." A) School. B) Meet. C) Tuesday. D) Committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Committee. 51. The flock of geese were on the side of the pond. A) Side. B) Geese. C) Pond. D) Flock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flock. 52. Collective noun for monkeys A) Gang. B) Group. C) Troop. D) Team. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troop. 53. ..... can also be called as naming words. A) Nouns. B) Pronuns. C) Sentences. D) Article. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nouns. 54. We have a new ..... of books in our library. A) Collection. B) Pile. C) Bunch. D) Band. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collection. 55. A ..... of grapes were placed in a crystal bowl on our dining table. A) Loaf. B) Choir. C) Pile. D) Bunch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bunch. 56. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The litter of kittens curled up on the soft pillow. A) Litter. B) Kittens. C) Pillow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litter. 57. Sam bought a bunch of bananas at the store. A) Sam. B) Bunch. C) Bananas. D) Bought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bunch. 58. Collective noun for buffalo A) School. B) Herd. C) Flock. D) Army. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herd. 59. There are a ..... of students studying in their classroom. A) Choir. B) Class. C) Bunch. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Class. 60. What is the collective noun in the sentence? The pod of whales was a beautiful sight to behold. A) Whales. B) Pod. C) Sight. D) Behold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pod. Next →Related QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesGrammar QuizzesCollective Nouns Quiz 2Collective Nouns Quiz 3Collective Nouns Quiz 4Collective Nouns Quiz 5Abstract Noun Formation QuizAbstract Nouns QuizCollective And Compound Nouns QuizCollective Noun Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books