This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 15 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sales clerk was ..... to manager of the store since he had worked hard. A) Demoted. B) Fired. C) Lectured. D) Promoted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Promoted. 2. Harry is clearly the protagonist in the Harry Potter series. What does the root word "pro" mean in "protagonist?" A) First. B) Life. C) Short. D) Come. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First. 3. Mind, soul A) Cycl. B) Morph. C) For. D) Psych. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psych. 4. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?The whole room was ..... when the play started. A) Quiet. B) Quieten. C) Quieting. D) Quietly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quiet. 5. ..... points are given when one team has provided every correct answer to the trivia game. A) Benevolent. B) Biography. C) Bonus. D) Benign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bonus. 6. Geology is the study of the biological, chemical, and physical history of the earth. The root logy means the study of something. What does the root geo mean? A) Earth or rock. B) Break or burst. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth or rock. 7. True or False:life=bio A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. A microscope allows you to see A) Small things. B) Things that are far away. C) Nothing. D) EVERYTHING!!!!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small things. 9. Ann means: A) Once a year. B) Once a day. C) Once a decade. D) Once a century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Once a year. 10. Photo-means ..... A) Flash. B) Record. C) Picture. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light. 11. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... He turned in his homework ..... A) Incomplete. B) Late. C) Realistic. D) Having to do with. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incomplete. 12. Div A) Heart. B) Divide/ Part. C) Shape. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divide/ Part. 13. If the word base means "the bottom of something" what does the word basement mean? A) The roof of a house. B) The chimney of a house. C) The lowest part of a house. D) The part of the house above the street. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The lowest part of a house. 14. If the word energy means "strength or power" what does the word energetic mean? A) Smoothly. B) In a slow way. C) Without power. D) With lots of strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With lots of strength. 15. Path A) Feeling, disease. B) Heart. C) Happy, sad. D) Down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling, disease. 16. Abhorrent A) Bad smelling. B) Very fast flowing. C) Over-priced. D) Causing disgust or dread. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Causing disgust or dread. 17. What is the root word of played? A) Play. B) Playing. C) Ed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Play. 18. If something is audible, it is able to be ..... A) Touched. B) Seen. C) Heard. D) Smelled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heard. 19. Hand A) Man. B) Bio. C) Alter. D) Aqua. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man. 20. A hemisphere is A) Half a sphere. B) Most of a sphere. C) A little bit of a sphere. D) Not a sphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Half a sphere. 21. Dia means A) Across. B) Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Across. 22. Which words does not belong? A) Add. B) Addition. C) Additional. D) Moving. E) Forgotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moving. 23. Perspective A) Feeling. B) Rules. C) Look. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Look. 24. I came to school overdressed. What does overdressed mean? A) Dress to formally. B) Embarrassed. C) Wearing a sweater over your dress. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dress to formally. 25. Which word belongs to the root:work A) Working. B) Adding. C) Movers. D) Moving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Working. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books