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 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word means a story of a person's life? A) Chronological. B) Biology. C) Biography. D) Audible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biography. 2. What is something that you put at the beginning of a word to create a new word? A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Root Word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 3. Which word means "absence of the government" ? A) Aristocracy. B) Anarchy. C) Autonomy. D) Autocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anarchy. 4. A machine (noun) that reproduces sound (music)by placing a needle in contact with a grooved rotating disk. a record player A) Phonograph. B) Audience. C) Audition. D) Audible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phonograph. 5. Which root words mean "before?" A) Rupt, dia. B) Fore, pre. C) Pre, rupt. D) Fore, struct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fore, pre. 6. What is the meaning of the root word-gen-? A) Light. B) Sound. C) Birth/kind. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birth/kind. 7. The Greek root that means "to measure" A) Bio. B) Graph. C) Meter. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 8. Protract can be defined as: A) The grip of a tire. B) To remove. C) To prolong or extend. D) Disapproval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To prolong or extend. 9. To write a musical piece A) Apposition. B) Compose. C) Depose. D) Deposit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compose. 10. What is the correct meaning of the root micro? A) Below. B) Large. C) Excessive. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small. 11. Which is the root word for the word freezer? A) Er. B) Ezer. C) Freeze. D) Freez. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freeze. 12. What is the meaning of the root word-graph-? A) Breathe. B) Together. C) To write. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To write. 13. Choose the root word for the following word:retake A) Ret. B) Re. C) Take. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take. 14. What is the Latin root word for place? A) Nat. B) Dyna. C) Loc. D) Aero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loc. 15. The prefix geo-like in the word geography means A) Full of brothers. B) Earth. C) Can be like a brother. D) Able to be brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth. 16. What is the meaning of the root word, -jur-, -jus-? A) Society. B) Law, rule. C) Class. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Law, rule. 17. Which word means to form a mental image of something; imagine? A) Visualize. B) Vista. C) Visionary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visualize. 18. The root word pend means to hang or weigh.What word has the root word pend in it that means to hang or weigh? A) Suspended. B) Spend. C) Overspend. D) Appendix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suspended. 19. Many common root words in English come from which 2 languages? A) Russian and Hebrew. B) Pashtu and Arabic. C) Mandarin and Japanese. D) Greek and Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greek and Latin. 20. The measurement of the distance AROUND an object A) Diameter. B) Pedometer. C) Perimeter. D) Seismometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perimeter. 21. What is the prefix in disorganize? A) Dis. B) Ize. C) Organ. D) Organize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dis. 22. Biology can be broken into its parts. Bio means ..... A) Life. B) Death. C) Animal. D) Stinky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life. 23. The root word-via-means A) Way. B) End. C) Across. D) Strict; serious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Way. 24. Which root words mean "against?" A) Counter, dia. B) Spec, inter. C) Inter, para. D) Counter, contra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Counter, contra. 25. The Greek word part geo means A) Self. B) George. C) Earth. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 26. Is the underlined part the prefix, suffix, or base word?Unbelievable A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Base Word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 27. The prefix ast-like in the word astrology means A) Something that is able to be royal. B) Full of royal. C) The state of being royal. D) Relating to the stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relating to the stars. 28. What is the meaning of "Meter" ? A) Fire. B) Measure of. C) The study of. D) God, religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Measure of. 29. What does the root word "anthrop" mean? A) Earth. B) Love. C) Life. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human. 30. What can pilots do if something goes wrong with their aircraft? A) Intersect. B) Bisect. C) Eject. D) Transect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eject. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9Root Words Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books