This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 8 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A person's signature A) Optical. B) Hypodermic. C) Autograph. D) Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autograph. 2. This word means to carry something from one place to another. A) Import. B) Deport. C) Export. D) Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transport. 3. 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. 4. What does the root word "bene" mean as used in the word beneficial? Eating fruit and vegetables is beneficial to your health. A) Bad. B) Delicious. C) Wrong. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. What is antonym for the word oppress? A) Mistreat. B) Abuse. C) Injustice. D) Help. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Help. 8. 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. 9. What is the root word in the word, "illness?" A) Sick. B) Ness. C) Ill. D) Illness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ill. 10. A word or phrase placed next to another word in order to identify it A) Imposition. B) Apposition. C) Expose. D) Juxtapose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apposition. 11. 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) Vista. B) Xylophone. C) Audience. D) Phonograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Xylophone. 12. 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. 13. ..... cover-to get rid of the cover, to show A) Un. B) Re. C) Non. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Un. 14. What does the prefix pre mean?Ex:She likes to pre view a movie before it comes out. A) Not. B) Middle. C) Before. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before. 15. 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. 16. In the word, wonderful, what does the suffix-ful mean? A) Full of. B) Able to. C) Against. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full of. 17. The Latin root orig-like in the word aboriginal means A) People. B) Art. C) Beginning. D) Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning. 18. What does the root "audi" mean? A) Hear. B) See. C) Love. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hear. 19. A device that steers an automobile in place of a person A) Automobile. B) Automatic. C) Autonomy. D) Autopilot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autopilot. 20. A polygon is a shape that has 3 or more sides.What does the root word poly mean? A) Some. B) Many. C) Three. D) Large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many. 21. What is the root word of disorganized? A) Dis. B) Ed. C) Organ. D) Organize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organize. 22. Do you have to make it take so long? You're doing this!A) protracting B) contracting C) attracting D) abstracting A) Contracting. B) Protracting. C) Attracting. D) Abstracting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protracting. 23. 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. 24. What is the root word of highest? A) Hi. B) High. C) Ghest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High. 25. Don't ..... from the route I gave you or you'll get lost! A) Deviate. B) Determination. C) Persevere. D) Tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deviate. 26. What does the root "sect" mean? A) Cut. B) Throw. C) Under. D) Across. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cut. 27. If the root word "mal" means bad, what does the word malicious mean?The mean kid was being malicious. A) Being friendly. B) Being nice. C) Being harmful. D) Being helpful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being harmful. 28. What does the root word demo-mean? A) People. B) Against. C) Demolish. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People. 29. What does the root word "omni" mean? A) All. B) Many. C) One. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All. 30. What is the root word in unexpected? A) Un. B) Expect. C) Expected. D) Ed. 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