This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are prefixes? A) A group of letters at the beginning of words. B) A group of letters in the middle of words. C) A group of letters at the end of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of letters at the beginning of words. 2. What is the root word of careful? A) Car. B) Ful. C) Care. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Care. 3. They are installing ..... panels on their home to generate electricity from the sun. A) Solitude. B) Solar. C) Unicorn. D) Unison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar. 4. The root word 'bene' means ..... A) Voice. B) Large. C) Good. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good. 5. The prefix dis-, like in the word dishonest means A) Before. B) Half. C) One. D) Not or away. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not or away. 6. Identify the suffix in the word:smarter A) Ter. B) Smart. C) Er. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Er. 7. A microscope is a lens that magnifies things we cannot see with our own eyes.What does the root word micro mean? A) See. B) Huge. C) Small. D) Magnify. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small. 8. What is the meaning of the root word-contra-? A) Say. B) Opposite/against. C) Hearing/listening. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite/against. 9. If you have to reconstruct something, you ..... A) Have to read again. B) Build something again. C) Build something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Build something again. 10. What is the definition of the root word ambi A) Both. B) Water. C) Strength. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both. 11. Which word has a base (root) word that means "to bring happiness to others" ? A) Unfortunate. B) Unless. C) Uncomfortable. D) Unkind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unkind. 12. ARCHENEMYARCHDUKEWhat is the shared root word in these words? A) Arch. B) Ar. C) Arc. D) Rch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ar. 13. What is the meaning of "Phon/ phono" ? A) Nature, body, natural science. B) One who studies. C) Foot. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sound. 14. The Latin root trib-like in the word contribution means A) Body. B) Give. C) Art. D) Soda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give. 15. The prefix super-like in the word supermarket means A) Not. B) More than. C) One. D) Half. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More than. 16. Arranged in order of time A) Chronograph. B) Chronicle. C) Synchronize. D) Chronological. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronological. 17. What is the root word that means "in the shape or form of" ? A) Meter. B) Graph. C) Form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 18. The natural heat produced inside the earth A) Geography. B) Geothermal. C) Chronological. D) Geoponics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geothermal. 19. What does the root word astr mean? A) Write. B) Hear. C) Life. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Star. 20. What is the base word in the word unhelpful? A) Help. B) Un. C) Helped. D) Ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help. 21. What do the suffixes ence, ent, ance and ant mean?As in arrogant, avoidance, independence, patient. A) To bring together. B) The act of doing something. C) The move forward. D) The act of escaping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The act of doing something. 22. I pushed too hard on the pedal of my bike and my foot slipped off of it. A) Part of the bike that helps you steer. B) Part of the bike that rolls along the ground. C) Part of the bike that you put your foot on. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Part of the bike that you put your foot on. 23. An adjective meaning "able to be heard" A) Auditorium. B) Audible. C) Cacophony. D) Phonograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audible. 24. What does the root word "poly" mean? A) Water. B) Star. C) Many. D) Mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Many. 25. What word means a trusted person? A) Confidant. B) Diffident. C) Infidel. D) Confident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confidant. 26. What do all of the roots mean in set 3? A) Time. B) In support of. C) Place. D) Against. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Against. 27. What does the prefix "de" mean?As in dejected, deficient, deficit, deduce. A) Having, giving. B) Away/ from. C) Sharing. D) Strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Away/ from. 28. My stay at summer camp was temporary and lasted two months. The word "temporary" contains the root ....., which means time. A) Graph. B) Tempo. C) Dict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tempo. 29. The prefix in the word 'undeniable' is ..... A) Able. B) Deny. C) Deniable. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Un. 30. Side by side comparison and contrast A) Depose. B) Post. C) Juxtapose. D) Proposal. 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