This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 49 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do the SUFFIXES-ity and-ty mean? A) To carry. B) To write. C) State of/quality of. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) State of/quality of. 2. In order to get inside the foot to operate, the doctor had to get make a small ..... above the large toe. A) Cuticle. B) Incision. C) Automaton. D) Footician. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incision. 3. Zaria is reading a book and comes across the words 'dialogue' and 'logical.' She wonders what the Greek root 'log' means. What does it mean? A) Word or reason. B) Sound or hearing. C) Light or vision. D) Movement or action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word or reason. 4. What does the suffix-able, -ible mean A) Worthy, capable of. B) Great, large. C) Sound. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worthy, capable of. 5. Yesterday was such an atypical day. My schedule was completely different because we were taking our SOLs. The word atypical has a prefix that means- A) Not. B) Never. C) School. D) Usual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 6. Use the suffix-ical to infer the meaning of comical. A) Drawn in pictures. B) Having to do with comedy. C) Not funny. D) Part of a long story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having to do with comedy. 7. The cosmonaut spent six months aboard the space station. After he lands back on Earth, he said that he really wants to go get a cheeseburger. What is the meaning of the root word cosm-as it is used in the words cosmosand cosmonaut? A) Flee. B) Distance. C) World. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World. 8. A science article uses the word "photosynthesis." Use your understanding of Greek roots to reason out the meaning of the word and choose the best definition. A) The process of breaking down food. B) The process by which plants make food using light. C) The study of animal life. D) The process of cell division. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process by which plants make food using light. 9. Contra-is a prefix that means ..... A) From, Away. B) Believe. C) Against. D) Citizen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against. 10. What does hydro or hydra mean? A) Water. B) Light. C) Above. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 11. Which prefix means middle? A) Pre. B) Be. C) A/an. D) Mid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mid. 12. Shout A) Cap. B) Pod. C) Claim/clam. D) Brev. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim/clam. 13. What is the meaning of the Latin root omni? A) Write. B) Sound. C) All. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All. 14. Based on your knowledge of roots and affixes. What does the word dishonorable mean? A) Full of honor. B) Capable of honor. C) Not able to honor. D) Having honor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not able to honor. 15. Which word has the suffix meaning "pertaining to or having to do with" ? A) Mythic. B) Captivity. C) Terrify. D) Modesty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mythic. 16. Civ A) Suffix. B) Affix. C) Prefix. D) Root. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Root. 17. Action of agitating, anxiety A) Perturbation. B) Turbidity. C) Turbine. D) Exasperation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perturbation. 18. What do the affixes "uni" and "du" have in common? A) They both refer to amount or how many of something there else. B) They each have to do with people and society. C) They are oppisites representing size. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both refer to amount or how many of something there else. 19. The state of being independent- A) Occupants. B) Indeniable. C) Independence. D) Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Independence. 20. The prefix goes: A) Before the root word. B) After the root word. C) It does not belong with the root word. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before the root word. 21. What does the prefix en-mean? A) Present tense / happening now. B) Act of / process of. C) To build. D) In / to make. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In / to make. 22. In/Im/Il A) Not. B) After, behind. C) Able to be done. D) Before, in front of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 23. Analyze the affix "ment" in the word "enjoyment" and determine its impact on the root word. A) Turns the word into a verb. B) Turns the word into a noun. C) Turns the word into an adjective. D) Turns the word into an adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turns the word into a noun. 24. Out, away, from A) Ex-. B) Per-. C) Dis-. D) Asper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ex-. 25. Crit is a root that means ..... A) Separate, Choose. B) Believe. C) Hear. D) Color. 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