This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Vocabulary > Root Words Roots And Affixes – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound. A) Photography. B) Biography. C) Cartography. D) Phonograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phonograph. 2. What does the prefix vis mean?ex:vis ual, vis ion A) To see. B) To hear. C) To hear. D) To taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To see. 3. A device that writes down the movements of the earth. A) Seismograph. B) Homograph. C) Cartograph. D) Photography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismograph. 4. Which suffix means one who does/having to do with? A) -ate. B) -ant/ent. C) -ous. D) -able/ible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ant/ent. 5. Our class plays football and soccer in the sandy ..... on our playground. A) Terrine. B) Terrain. C) Geology. D) Geographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrain. 6. What does the affix multi-mean? A) Move. B) Many. C) Mind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many. 7. Which affix means apart/not? A) Ex-. B) Ad-. C) Dis-. D) De-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dis-. 8. Which part forms the base of a word? A) The annex. B) The root. C) The suffix. D) The prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The root. 9. What does the root word graph mean?ex:photograph, graph ic organizer A) Mathmatics. B) Write. C) Read. D) Chart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 10. The word for earth is A) Hydr. B) Ben. C) Nov. D) Geo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geo. 11. In which word does-ly mean the same as it does in smoothly? A) Only. B) Silly. C) Slowly. D) Ugly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slowly. 12. A word part with a specific meaning at the beginning of a word. A) Prefix. B) Root. C) Affix. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 13. What is the meaning of the root word "bene" ? A) Serious. B) Bad. C) Funny. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good. 14. Which suffix means "having the quality of" ? A) Photo. B) Able. C) Dis. D) Ity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ity. 15. Which of the following word roots means "light?" A) Phon. B) Geo. C) Opt. D) Photo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photo. 16. The ....., or base, is the word you can add a prefix or suffix onto. A) Affix. B) Stem. C) Coffee. D) Root. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Root. 17. What is the root word of irregularly? A) Regular. B) Confident. C) Comfort. D) Respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regular. 18. What is a letter or a group of letters that is added at the beginning of a word to change it's meaning? A) Affix. B) Root. C) Prefix. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prefix. 19. A person walking on a road/in a city. A) Pediatrist. B) Pedagogue. C) Peddler. D) Pedestrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pedestrian. 20. The final section after the main part of a book, play, or movie. A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Prologue. D) Epilogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epilogue. 21. What does the suffix ess mean? A) One who (female). B) One who practices. C) One who. D) Doctrine of/principle of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One who (female). 22. It was completely ..... for Sam to steal the baseball glove. A) Illiterate. B) Illogical. C) Omniscient. D) Imbalance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illogical. 23. To take something away from someone, to keep them from getting something. A) Deprive. B) Decline. C) Desire. D) Destroy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deprive. 24. What does the root "hemi" mean? A) Half. B) Breathe. C) Earth. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Half. 25. What does the root dem mean? A) Sound. B) People. C) Write. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People. 26. Nonstop means ..... A) For a while. B) Rarely. C) Never. D) Constantly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Constantly. 27. The word root 'rupt, ' found in words such as 'erupt, ' 'disrupt, ' 'rupture, ' etc, means: A) Break. B) Life. C) Self. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Break. 28. A speech made to honor the dead at a funeral. A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Epilogue. D) Eulogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eulogy. 29. What does the root test mean? A) To measure. B) To write. C) To witness. D) To change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To witness. 30. Based on the definition of corporal punishment (physical punishment), what does the the root word corp mean? A) Pain. B) Weapon. C) Body. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Body. 31. These form the base of other words which are created after affixes (prefixes & suffixes) are added: A) Affix. B) Prefix. C) Root. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root. 32. The ..... mother was so kind to her children that they decided never to move out even though they were thirty years old. A) Benediction. B) Ambivalent. C) Euphoria. D) Benevolent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benevolent. 33. What is the meaning of the root word in the word dictation? A) Break. B) Say or speak. C) Time. D) Having the quality of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Say or speak. 34. What does PSEUDO mean? A) True. B) Calm. C) Crazy. D) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False. 35. The prefix sub means ..... ; submarine A) Under. B) In between. C) Move from one to the next. D) Over. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under. 36. To move someone or something from its original position. Usually forcefully like taking a job or kicking someone out. A) Distract. B) Detour. C) Destroy. D) Displace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Displace. 37. A ..... is an affix, or word part, that is added to the beginning of a root word. A) Root word. B) Suffix. C) Coffee. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prefix. 38. In the word unstoppable, the prefix is ..... A) Un-. B) -stop-. C) -able. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Un-. 39. What does the root word 'flex' mean? A) Bend. B) Cut or separate. C) Half. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bend. 40. Motionless means ..... A) Hidden. B) Not stopping. C) Gone. D) Not moving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not moving. 41. The prefix post-means; postseason A) Mailbox. B) Before. C) After. D) Within. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After. 42. What is the definition of the highlighted word?, or disgusted, by the honey-covered homework the student turned in. A) Surprised. B) Frustrated. C) Pleased. D) Disgusted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disgusted. 43. The prefix non-means A) End. B) Word. C) Opposite from. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not. 44. Which of the following words has a root that means "middle" ? A) Midichlorian. B) Median. C) Mystify. D) Maladjusted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 45. The prefix mis-means ..... Examples:misused, misunderstood A) Again. B) Not. C) Yes. D) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wrong. 46. Which of the following words contains an affix meaning "after" ? A) Postpone. B) Prefabricated. C) Subsequently. D) Ensuing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postpone. 47. How many points do a trident have? A) None. B) Ten. C) Three. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 48. What means write A) Graph. B) Phon. C) Port. D) Min. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graph. 49. Which is an example of a greek or latin root? A) Comfort. B) Mean. C) Kind. D) Chron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chron. 50. To act against something to limit or stop its effects is to ..... A) Counterattack. B) Counter. C) Contradict. D) Counteract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Counteract. 51. The word littering means As I walked to the park, I never saw so much littering in my life. I felt a sense of duty to do my part to make it right. A) Collecting. B) Trashing. C) Decorating. D) Cleaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trashing. 52. Ir-and non-are considered ..... A) Suffixes. B) Root words. C) Affixes. D) Prefixes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prefixes. 53. Living or found in or near water A) Aquatic. B) Hydroplane. C) Hydrokinetic. D) Aquarium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquatic. 54. Adding a suffix can change a word's ..... A) Meaning. B) Definition. C) Part of speech. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Part of speech. 55. What TWO root words mean time? A) Bene; mal. B) Neo; paleo. C) Helio; sol. D) Chron; temp/tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chron; temp/tempo. 56. Scrib, Script, Gram, and Graph are all root words that mean ..... A) One. B) Measure. C) Sound. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Write. 57. A set of papers with writing that is hard to read. A) Manuscript. B) Script. C) Perscription. D) Scribble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scribble. 58. Which root word means move? A) Mort. B) Magn. C) Mob/mot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mob/mot. 59. In the word rewrite, re-is what part of the word? A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Root Word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prefix. 60. A person who sings A) Vocation. B) Vocalist. C) Vocal. D) Evoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vocalist. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 1Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 2Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 3Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 5Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 6Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 7Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 8Advanced Vocabulary QuizAffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books