This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To make something happen at the same time A) Chronicle. B) Synchronize. C) Chronological. D) Chronograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synchronize. 2. The measurement of the distance ACROSS the center of an object A) Kilometer. B) Perimeter. C) Diameter. D) Centimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diameter. 3. Which of the following is a prefix? A) Ness. B) Un. C) Ful. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Un. 4. What word completes this sentence?You should ..... by reusing objects over and over. A) Cyclist. B) Bicycle. C) Cyclone. D) Recycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recycle. 5. Albert Einstein is considered a ..... of modern physics. A) Visualize. B) Audition. C) Cacophony. D) Visionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Visionary. 6. Which words have the same root word? A) Cleaned/clean. B) Fed/food. C) Right/night. D) Spotless/careless. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cleaned/clean. 7. In the word, impossible, what does the prefix im-mean? A) Under. B) Not. C) Good. D) Able to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 8. The root word dem means people.What word has the root word dem in it that has to do with people? A) Democracy. B) Demolition. C) Democrat. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 9. The root "ped" means foot, so a pedicure is? A) A machine that has a foot pedal. B) A cosemetic treatment of the feet or toenails. C) A four-footed animal. D) Someone who walks on their feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A cosemetic treatment of the feet or toenails. 10. Which word is the layer of earth in which we live with all other living things? A) Revial. B) Vivisection. C) Biology. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 11. Which has the same root word as packed? A) Sacked. B) Pace. C) Packs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Packs. 12. What do the root "mis" and "mit" mean? A) To throw. B) To carry. C) To send. D) To cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To send. 13. The word MISUNDERSTAND means to ..... A) Understand beforehand. B) Understand again. C) Understand wrongly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understand wrongly. 14. The prefix fac-like in the word factory means A) To make. B) Without joy. C) Condition of joy. D) Being joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make. 15. Which of the following words uses gen correctly? A) Genetic. B) Genle. C) Genne. D) Generation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generation. 16. What does the root word ology mean?ex:microbiology, macrobiology A) Plant life. B) Transform. C) The study of. D) Material. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of. 17. An account of a person's life written by that person A) Autobiography. B) Autonomy. C) Autopsy. D) Autocorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autobiography. 18. Adding the suffix "ing" to the root word "laugh" creates A) Laughy. B) Laugher. C) Laughing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laughing. 19. Which word uses the suffix-ly the same was as it's used in the word happily? A) Daily. B) Quickly. C) Only. D) Silly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quickly. 20. What is the root of the word, quickly? A) -ly. B) -ick. C) Quick. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quick. 21. A ..... in a play can be difficult to perform since there is only one actor speaking. A) Monotone. B) Monologue. C) Solo. D) Unison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 22. Which root word means sound? A) Vis/vid. B) Aud. C) Phon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phon. 23. Identify the suffix in the word:Clapping A) Ping. B) Clap. C) Ing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ing. 24. This word means someone's life story written by that person. A) Inspect. B) Autobiography. C) Biography. D) Spectacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiography. 25. What kind of book are you reading if it's about a roman emperor and was written by a historical researcher named Keith Noslo? A) Autobiography. B) Biopsy. C) Biolgy. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biography. 26. Fill in the blank.We enjoyed the beautiful ..... of the mountains through the front window of the cottage. A) Visualize. B) Vista. C) Visionary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vista. 27. A device that measures the number of steps travelled A) Thermometer. B) Kilometer. C) Perimeter. D) Pedometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pedometer. 28. Greek root word meaning earth A) Chron. B) Geo. C) Chronicle. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geo. 29. What is the root word for appreciation? A) Apprecia. B) Appreciate. C) Tion. D) Preciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appreciate. 30. What is the meaning of the root word-cosm-? A) Makeup. B) Strong. C) Lead. D) World/universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World/universe. 31. What is the meaning of the root word-fort-? A) Goodness. B) To say. C) Generation. D) Strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strong. 32. What does the root word bio mean? ex:microbio logy, autobio graphy A) Text. B) Life. C) Air. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 33. What is the meaning of the root 'ject'? A) A circle. B) To send. C) To throw. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To throw. 34. Which of the following roots means to hear? A) Aud. B) Techn. C) Tel. D) Duct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aud. 35. The root sub means under or low. Which of these words means a boat that runs under the water? A) Subway. B) Subdue. C) Submarine. D) Subtract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Submarine. 36. The root-term-means A) Turn. B) Across. C) End. D) Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 37. The word "dictionary" contains the root ....., which means say. A) Spec. B) Port. C) Dict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dict. 38. What is the maning of the root word Test? A) Testify. B) Testing. C) Eat. D) Bear Witness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bear Witness. 39. What does the word "path" mean? A) Feel. B) Eye. C) Love. D) Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feel. 40. What does the root word mal-mean? A) Hand. B) Good. C) Bad. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bad. 41. What is the meaning of the root 'aero'? A) The air. B) A circle. C) To carry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The air. 42. The Greek word part strict means A) George. B) Draw tight. C) Water. D) Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Draw tight. 43. What are two things that Ms. Wagner might ask you to contrast? A) Two weather systems. B) The governments of two civilizations. C) The mood in two short stories. D) Two math problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The governments of two civilizations. 44. What does the prefix "micro" mean?As in microscopic, microwave, microphone. A) Small. B) Large. C) Far. D) Near. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small. 45. What is the meaning of the prefix in the underlined word:My mom is so cool, she was able to preorder an XBox Series X! A) Order. B) Order before. C) Order after. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Order before. 46. Psychology means 'the study of' what? A) The mind. B) Life. C) The voice. D) Good things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mind. 47. What does the root word "struct" mean as in the word construction?My dad works in construction and creates houses and buildings. A) Hear. B) Build. C) Water. D) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Build. 48. An illness caused by the body attacking its own tissues A) Autograph. B) Autonomy. C) Autopsy. D) Autoimmune. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autoimmune. 49. What the word geography mean if the root word "geo" means earth or soil.I took a geography class in high school. A) Study of planets. B) Study of nature. C) Study of the earth's surface. D) Study of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study of the earth's surface. 50. Choose the root word for the following word:teacher A) Er. B) Teach. C) Tea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teach. 51. Which root word is found in words like revive, survival, and vital? A) Mit. B) Re. C) Viv. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Viv. 52. The root word leg means law.What word does not have the root word leg in it that means law? A) Leg al. B) Leg islative. C) Colleg e. D) Illeg al. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colleg e. 53. Microbiology means ..... A) The study of large life. B) The study of small life. C) The study of small books. D) The study of small living ologies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of small life. 54. What does the root word "meter" mean as in the word perimeter?I used a ruler to figure out the perimeter of the rectangle. A) Weight. B) Life. C) Sound. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Measure. 55. The Latin root corp like in the word corporal means A) Body. B) Art. C) Company. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Body. 56. What does the suffix "ceed" mean?As in succeed, proceed, exceed. A) To go or move. B) To stop. C) To have a lot of money. D) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To go or move. 57. What does the word matri/mater mean? A) Mean. B) Mother. C) Manager. D) Multiple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mother. 58. What is the suffix in unemployment? A) Ment. B) Ployment. C) Un. D) Employ. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ment. 59. What is the suffix in the word, "dissatisfied" ?" A) Dis. B) Fy. C) Satisfy. D) Ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fy. 60. To put into a different order or place A) Compose. B) Imposition. C) Transpose. D) Depose. 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