Morpheme Quiz

What word names what someone has written when he or she signed his or her own name on something?

• phonograph
• autograph
• biography
• homograph

What word names the type of book that is about a person's life and was written by that actual person?

• bibliography
• biography
• autobiography
• phonography

Which word best completes the following sentence?

The                                sent messages by electric wire. 

• telegraph
• telephone
• telescope
• television

A scope is a(n) 

• system that uses wires and radio signals to send sounds (such as people's voices) over long distances.
• device into which people speak or sing in order to record their voices or to make them sound louder.
• instrument that is used to look at things.
• a device used for producing a much larger view of very small objects so that they can be seen clearly.

A microphone is a(n)

• system that uses wires and radio signals to send sounds (such as people's voices) over long distances.
• device into which people speak or sing in order to record their voices or to make them sound louder.
• instrument that is used to look at things.
• device that is worn over your ears and used for listening to music, the radio, etc., without having other people hear it.

Which word means a device used for producing a much larger view of very small objects so that they can be seen clearly?

• scope
• microphone
• telescope
• microscope

a story of someone's life written by that person

• autodidact

• autocracy

• autobiography

• autoimmune

the name of a person, especially a famous person, written in his or her own handwriting

• autograph

• automaton

• automatic

• autocracy

short for automatic pilot; a device for keeping a vehicle on course without the intervention of a pilot or driver

• automobile

• autopilot

• automatic

• automaton

working or operating by itself

• autopilot

• automatic

• automobile

• autobiography