This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... means look A) Spec. B) Dict. C) Tempo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spec. 2. What is the root in the word chronological? A) Logical. B) Chron. C) Olog. D) Chr. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chron. 3. A device to measure and record time A) Chronicle. B) Chronological. C) Synchronize. D) Chronograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronograph. 4. The root in this word tells you that this word means "kept within limits." A) Confine. B) Circumference. C) Subterranean. D) Convict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confine. 5. What is the meaning of the prefix in the underlined word:I did not complete my assignment, so Mrs. Rodriguez asked me to resubmit it. A) Submit again. B) Submit. C) Take a nap. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Submit again. 6. What is the base word in happiness A) Ness. B) Happy. C) Iness. D) Hap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happy. 7. Which words use pre the same way as preheat? A) Prepaid and preschool. B) Preview and prey. C) Preppy and preview. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prepaid and preschool. 8. Which words use the suffix-er the same way as painter? A) Catcher and teacher. B) Never and driver. C) Teacher and anger. D) Answer and anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catcher and teacher. 9. What does the root word fact-mean? A) With. B) Out of, from. C) In, on. D) Made, done. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Made, done. 10. What is the Latin root word for mark? A) Rise. B) Sign. C) Mark it. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sign. 11. What is the root word in the word, "collection?" A) Gather. B) Collection. C) Ion. D) Collect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collect. 12. When you are flexible, you are able to shape your body in different ways.What does the root word flex mean? A) To bend. B) Stiff. C) Loose. D) Circular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To bend. 13. The Latin root word neg-as in negative means A) People. B) Body. C) No. D) Number. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No. 14. Which root word is found in words like transmit, submit, permit? A) Mit. B) Re. C) Viv. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mit. 15. What does the root word "cide" mean?As in pesticide, insecticide, homicide. A) To kill. B) To befriend. C) To study. D) To send for. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To kill. 16. What does the suffix "ify" mean?As in terrify, mortify, horrify, modify. A) To build or grow. B) To write. C) To think. D) To make or cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To make or cause. 17. If excite means to "stir up, " then an excitable person is one who ..... A) Was once stirred up. B) Can be stirred up. C) Is not stirred up. D) Can never be stirred up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can be stirred up. 18. Which word completes the sentence:Don't allow noise to ..... you from your work. A) Extract. B) Subtract. C) Protract. D) Distract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distract. 19. The Latin root min-, like in the word miniature means A) People. B) Greater. C) Green. D) Small, less. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small, less. 20. What does the root word culp-mean? A) Words. B) Distinct. C) Blame. D) Body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blame. 21. What does the root word idol-mean? A) Born, produced. B) Step. C) Image, likeness, shape. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Image, likeness, shape. 22. What does the root word fore-mean? A) Against. B) Opposite. C) In. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before. 23. A tiny piece of a computer that holds the memory. A) Microwave. B) Microchip. C) Microscope. D) Microphone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microchip. 24. Which is the root word for the word restacked? A) Restack. B) Stack. C) Re. D) Ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stack. 25. What word means clear and alert? A) Lexicon. B) Lucid. C) Monarch. D) Bellicose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucid. 26. What does the root word "tele" mean as in the word telescope? I saw a planet looking through a telescope. A) To write. B) Far. C) Sound. D) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far. 27. A person's signature A) Optical. B) Hypodermic. C) Autograph. D) Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autograph. 28. This word means to carry something from one place to another. A) Deport. B) Export. C) Import. D) Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transport. 29. What are root words? A) Words related to trees. B) Words discussed in science class. C) The stems or bases of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stems or bases of words. 30. What does the root word "bene" mean as used in the word beneficial? Eating fruit and vegetables is beneficial to your health. A) Wrong. B) Good. C) Delicious. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good. 31. Choose the root word for the following word:busiest A) Busy. B) Ist. C) Bus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Busy. 32. What does the root word "lum" mean?As in luminous, illumination, luminary. A) Round. B) Hand. C) Light. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 33. What is antonym for the word oppress? A) Help. B) Abuse. C) Injustice. D) Mistreat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help. 34. The root word-ology means: A) The study of plants. B) Making something. C) Something burning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of plants. 35. What is the root word in the word, "illness?" A) Illness. B) Sick. C) Ness. D) Ill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ill. 36. A word or phrase placed next to another word in order to identify it A) Apposition. B) Imposition. C) Juxtapose. D) Expose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apposition. 37. A noun that means a musical instrument played by striking a row of metal bars of different lengths with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets A) Phonograph. B) Vista. C) Audience. D) Xylophone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Xylophone. 38. A prefix comes at the ..... of a root word. A) Middle. B) End. C) Beginning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning. 39. ..... cover-to get rid of the cover, to show A) Un. B) In. C) Re. D) Non. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Un. 40. What does the prefix pre mean?Ex:She likes to pre view a movie before it comes out. A) Not. B) Before. C) Middle. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 41. Which words have the same prefix as review? A) Remember and red. B) Red and reread. C) Rethink and refill. D) Rely and remember. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rethink and refill. 42. In the word, wonderful, what does the suffix-ful mean? A) Full of. B) Not. C) Against. D) Able to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full of. 43. The Latin root orig-like in the word aboriginal means A) People. B) Art. C) Beginning. D) Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning. 44. What does the root "audi" mean? A) Star. B) Love. C) See. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hear. 45. A device that steers an automobile in place of a person A) Automobile. B) Autopilot. C) Automatic. D) Autonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autopilot. 46. A polygon is a shape that has 3 or more sides.What does the root word poly mean? A) Many. B) Large. C) Three. D) Some. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many. 47. What is the root word of disorganized? A) Ed. B) Organ. C) Dis. D) Organize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organize. 48. Do you have to make it take so long? You're doing this!A) protracting B) contracting C) attracting D) abstracting A) Abstracting. B) Attracting. C) Protracting. D) Contracting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protracting. 49. A suffix comes at the ..... of a root word. A) Middle. B) Beginning. C) End. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 50. What is the root word of highest? A) Hi. B) High. C) Ghest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High. 51. Don't ..... from the route I gave you or you'll get lost! A) Deviate. B) Persevere. C) Tradition. D) Determination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deviate. 52. What does the root "sect" mean? A) Throw. B) Across. C) Under. D) Cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cut. 53. If the root word "mal" means bad, what does the word malicious mean?The mean kid was being malicious. A) Being friendly. B) Being helpful. C) Being nice. D) Being harmful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being harmful. 54. What does the root word demo-mean? A) People. B) Demolish. C) Against. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People. 55. What does the root word "omni" mean? A) All. B) Many. C) One. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All. 56. What is the root word in unexpected? A) Un. B) Ed. C) Expected. D) Expect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expect. 57. Which is the root word for the word fielder? A) Der. B) Fielde. C) Fiel. D) Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Field. 58. I would love to have a pet ..... ! A) Unify. B) Solo. C) Unicorn. D) Solitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unicorn. 59. 'Benevolent' means wanting good things for people; generous; kind. What does 'bene' mean? A) Good. B) People. C) Things. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good. 60. The suffix in the word 'impassble' is ..... A) Im. B) Able. C) Passable. D) Pass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Able. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root 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