This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Vocabulary > Root Words Roots And Affixes – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the prefix in autobiography? A) Y. B) Auto. C) Bio. D) Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auto. 2. What does the root 'ject' meant? A) Cut. B) Speak. C) Throw. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Throw. 3. Based on our knowledge of prefixes, which of the following words means "a protagonist who does not act brave or morally good?" A) Semi-hero. B) Sub-hero. C) Anti-hero. D) Poly-hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anti-hero. 4. How many years are in a bi cent ennial? A) 2. B) 100. C) 1000. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 200. 5. To say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in writing. A) Describe. B) Inscription. C) Manuscript. D) Scribble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Describe. 6. What is the suffix of ferocious? A) -ly. B) -ous. C) -ment. D) -or. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ous. 7. What suffix means full of? A) -ate. B) -able/ible. C) -ous. D) -ant/ent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ous. 8. What do the root words 'scrib' & 'scrip' mean? A) Water. B) Write. C) See. D) Against. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 9. What does the root biblio mean? A) Time. B) Earth. C) Book. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Book. 10. The root word "cede" means ..... A) To yield or withdraw. B) Both. C) Bad; wrong. D) Shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To yield or withdraw. 11. The suffix "or" as in inventor means ..... A) Action or process. B) Time. C) Having the quality of. D) Someone who. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Someone who. 12. A statement saying you are sorry for something. A) Eulogy. B) Epilogue. C) Apology. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apology. 13. I loathe sports, my knowledge of anything baseball related is ..... A) Irrelevant. B) Irregular. C) Nonverbal. D) Nonexistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nonexistent. 14. Which of the following words contains a root meaning "skin" ? A) Cuticle. B) Epidermal. C) Callous. D) Peel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epidermal. 15. What does the root word 'semi' mean? A) Cut, separate. B) Look, see. C) Half. D) Around. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Half. 16. Identify the meaning of the root word underlined within the following word:temporary A) Time. B) Move. C) Hand. D) Roll. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 17. Choose the prefix of the word that is underlined.I must have misunderstood my teacher's directions. Oops! A) Under. B) Mis. C) Stood. D) Misunder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mis. 18. A suffix is a word part added to the ..... of a root or base word. A) Beginning. B) Middle. C) End. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 19. Below the freezing point A) Subfreezing. B) Subcutaneous. C) Subway. D) Submerge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subfreezing. 20. Which root word means "middle" or "between" ? A) Amphi. B) Sect. C) Medi. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medi. 21. Record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound. A) Photography. B) Phonograph. C) Cartography. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phonograph. 22. What does the prefix vis mean?ex:vis ual, vis ion A) To hear. B) To taste. C) To see. D) To hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To see. 23. A device that writes down the movements of the earth. A) Seismograph. B) Photography. C) Homograph. D) Cartograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismograph. 24. Which suffix means one who does/having to do with? A) -able/ible. B) -ant/ent. C) -ate. D) -ous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ant/ent. 25. Our class plays football and soccer in the sandy ..... on our playground. A) Terrain. B) Terrine. C) Geology. D) Geographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrain. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRoot Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 1Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 2Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 3Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 4Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 5Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 6Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 7Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 9Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 10Root Words Roots And Affixes Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books