Root Words Quiz 18 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Root Words – Quiz 18
1. The root word for "small" is _____ .
A) Bio.
B) Auto.
C) Tele.
D) Micro.
2. What did the family do after eating the evening meal?.
A) Read a book together.
B) Talked about their feelings.
C) Helped clean up.
D) Watched television.
3. Which root word means to see or to look?.
A) View/at.
B) Aud.
C) Phon.
D) None of above.
4. My essay was confusing, so my teacher asked me to _____ my writing.
A) Evidence.
B) Revise.
C) Translucent.
D) Visible.
5. Which word has the SAME root word as wanted?.
A) Wants.
B) Ant.
C) Waited.
D) None of above.
6. What is the root word for remake?.
A) Make.
B) More.
C) Re.
D) Rem.
7. The greek root "path" (ex:sympathy) means _____ .
A) Feeling and suffering.
B) Talking & singing.
C) Sleeping & breathing.
D) Digging & planting.
8. Which word is an adjective that describes a generous, good feast?.
A) Benevolent.
B) Demote.
C) Beneath.
D) Bounteous.
9. What does chron mean?.
A) Time.
B) Space.
C) Plants.
D) None of above.
10. If biannual means every two years, what does biweekly mean?.
A) Every four weeks.
B) Every two weeks.
C) Every two days.
D) Every two years.
11. The sales clerk was _____ to manager of the store since he had worked hard.
A) Promoted.
B) Lectured.
C) Fired.
D) Demoted.
12. Harry is clearly the protagonist in the Harry Potter series. What does the root word "pro" mean in "protagonist?".
A) Life.
B) Short.
C) First.
D) Come.
13. Post.
A) Star.
B) To lead.
C) Reverse.
D) After.
14. Mind, soul.
A) Cycl.
B) Psych.
C) For.
D) Morph.
15. Aqua:.
A) Water.
B) Land.
C) Sea.
D) Life.
16. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?The whole room was _____ when the play started.
A) Quieten.
B) Quiet.
C) Quieting.
D) Quietly.
17. _____ points are given when one team has provided every correct answer to the trivia game.
A) Biography.
B) Benevolent.
C) Bonus.
D) Benign.
18. 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.
19. True or False:life=bio.
A) True.
B) False.
20. A microscope allows you to see.
A) Small things.
B) Things that are far away.
C) Nothing.
D) EVERYTHING!!!!.
21. Ann means:.
A) Once a year.
B) Once a decade.
C) Once a day.
D) Once a century.
22. Photo-means _____ .
A) Flash.
B) Picture.
C) Light.
D) Record.
23. Fill in the blank with the correct word _____ He turned in his homework _____ .
A) Having to do with.
B) Realistic.
C) Incomplete.
D) Late.
24. Div.
A) Heart.
B) Shape.
C) Divide/ Part.
D) Form.
25. Tele-.
A) Distant or far away.
B) To watch.
C) Above or over.
D) Under or below.