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Homophones and Family Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 68

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means a military rank?

a)

Kernel

b)

Colonel

c)

Coward

d)

Counsel

2.

Which word refers to a cowardly person?

a)

Cowered

b)

Coward

c)

Hoard

d)

Horde

3.

What is the correct homophone for a group that gives advice?

a)

Counsel

b)

Council

c)

Principle

d)

Board

4.

Which word means to stir up?

a)

Insight

b)

Incite

c)

Cowered

d)

Stationery

5.

What is the homophone for something used to write letters?

a)

Stationary

b)

Stationery

c)

Complement

d)

Suite

6.

Which word refers to being uninterested?

a)

Board

b)

Bored

c)

Hoarse

d)

Horse

7.

Which is a sweet thing to eat?

a)

Suite

b)

Sweet

c)

Principal

d)

Counsel

8.

What is the homophone for praise or flattery?

a)

Complement

b)

Compliment

c)

Lesson

d)

Descent

9.

Which word means a part of a plant?

a)

Flour

b)

Flower

c)

Suite

d)

Principal

10.

Which one means the leader of a school?

a)

Principle

b)

Principal

c)

Colonel

d)

Matriarch

11.

Which word means remaining in one place?

a)

Stationery

b)

Stationary

c)

Suite

d)

Hoard

12.

What is the word for a hidden collection?

a)

Horde

b)

Hoard

c)

Complement

d)

Dissent

13.

What is the opposite of going upward?

a)

Descent

b)

Dissent

c)

Principle

d)

Lesson

14.

Which word refers to a type of carriage?

a)

Handsome

b)

Hansom

c)

Hoarse

d)

Stationary

15.

Which word means a class in school?

a)

Lesson

b)

Lessen

c)

Compliment

d)

Parable

16.

What is the legal process of taking a child into your home permanently?

a)

Heritage

b)

Adoption

c)

Juvenile

d)

Genealogy

17.

Who came before you in your family line?

a)

Descendant

b)

Ancestors

c)

Kindred

d)

Matriarch

18.

Which word means someone who comes from a specific ancestor?

a)

Ancestors

b)

Descendant

c)

Juvenile

d)

Paternal

19.

What word relates to brothers?

a)

Maternal

b)

Fraternal

c)

Kindred

d)

Heritage

20.

Which word refers to the mother's side of the family?

a)

Fraternal

b)

Maternal

c)

Paternal

d)

Adoption

21.

What word relates to the father's side?

a)

Maternal

b)

Estranged

c)

Paternal

d)

Juvenile

22.

What is the word for a distant or alienated family member?

a)

Estranged

b)

Kindred

c)

Ancestors

d)

Genealogy

23.

What word means five babies born at once?

a)

Triplets

b)

Quintuplet

c)

Juvenile

d)

Siblings

24.

Which word refers to a promise to get married?

a)

Inheritance

b)

Engagement

c)

Heritage

d)

Genealogy

25.

What is the study of family history?

a)

Genealogy

b)

Biology

c)

Physics

d)

Engagement

26.

What is passed down from your family?

a)

Energy

b)

Heritage

c)

Memoire

d)

Homestead

27.

What is something you may receive from your parents when they pass away?

a)

Memoire

b)

Inheritance

c)

Guardian

d)

Principal

28.

What word describes a young person?

a)

Juvenile

b)

Patriarch

c)

Ancestors

d)

Compliment

29.

Which word means relatives?

a)

Juvenile

b)

Kindred

c)

Matriarch

d)

Fraternal

30.

What is the female head of a family called?

a)

Patriarch

b)

Matriarch

c)

Kindred

d)

Heritage

31.

Where does an animal live?

a)

Environment

b)

Habitat

c)

Organism

d)

Shelter

32.

What is an animal that hunts another called?

a)

Prey

b)

Predator

c)

Herbivore

d)

Camouflage

33.

What is an animal that gets hunted?

a)

Predator

b)

Prey

c)

Shelter

d)

Nocturnal

34.

What word describes animals active at night?

a)

Nocturnal

b)

Camouflage

c)

Vertebrate

d)

Dwarf

35.

Which word means to blend into the surroundings?

a)

Camouflage

b)

Predator

c)

Habitat

d)

Shelter

36.

What is a place of protection for animals?

a)

Shelter

b)

Habitat

c)

Domicile

d)

Apartment

37.

An animal that eats plants is a:

a)

Carnivore

b)

Herbivore

c)

Omnivore

d)

Predator

38.

An animal that eats meat is called:

a)

Herbivore

b)

Predator

c)

Carnivore

d)

Prey

39.

What is the natural world where animals live?

a)

Environment

b)

Apartment

c)

Stationary

d)

Reprocess

40.

Animals without backbones are:

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Invertebrate

c)

Predator

d)

Terrestrial

41.

Animals with backbones are called:

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Prey

c)

Shelter

d)

Aquatic

42.

What word describes land animals?

a)

Terrestrial

b)

Aquatic

c)

Predator

d)

Invertebrate

43.

What word describes water animals?

a)

Predator

b)

Aquatic

c)

Terrestrial

d)

Shelter

44.

What is a living creature called?

a)

Organism

b)

Shelter

c)

Data

d)

Complement

45.

Which word means the category of animals?

a)

Species

b)

Group

c)

Community

d)

Breed

46.

The main character in a story is the:

a)

Antagonist

b)

Protagonist

c)

Narrator

d)

Guardian

47.

The character that opposes the hero is the:

a)

Protagonist

b)

Antagonist

c)

Parable

d)

Punctuation

48.

A tale of risk and excitement is called an:

a)

Enchantment

b)

Adventure

c)

Parable

d)

Memoire

49.

What word means a magical spell?

a)

Adventure

b)

Drawbridge

c)

Enchantment

d)

Dwarves

50.

A bridge that can be pulled up is a:

a)

Folklore

b)

Drawbridge

c)

Parable

d)

Character

51.

Stories passed through generations are:

a)

Folklore

b)

Memoire

c)

Punctuation

d)

Hypothesis

52.

Small mythical beings in stories:

a)

Elves

b)

Dwarves

c)

Giants

d)

Creatures

53.

A person in a story is called a:

a)

Guardian

b)

Character

c)

Antagonist

d)

Protagonist

54.

A short story that teaches a lesson is a:

a)

Folktale

b)

Parable

c)

Memoire

d)

Sequencing

55.

A traditional story from culture is a:

a)

Parable

b)

Folktale

c)

Biography

d)

Drawbridge

56.

A book about a person's life:

a)

Biography

b)

Memoire

c)

Folktale

d)

Parable

57.

A personal life story is a:

a)

Parable

b)

Memoire

c)

Folklore

d)

Character

58.

Symbols like periods and commas are:

a)

Sequencing

b)

Punctuation

c)

Grammar

d)

Syntax

59.

What word means putting events in order?

a)

Biography

b)

Punctuation

c)

Sequencing

d)

Character

60.

A person who protects or watches over another:

a)

Character

b)

Guardian

c)

Protagonist

d)

Parable

61.

A statement to be tested in an experiment is a:

a)

Experiment

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Data

d)

Theory

62.

Collected facts and figures are called:

a)

Hypothesis

b)

Data

c)

Genetics

d)

Fossils

63.

The study of stars and planets is:

a)

Biology

b)

Astronomy

c)

Chemistry

d)

Physics

64.

Preserved remains of ancient life are:

a)

Fossils

b)

Data

c)

Hypothesis

d)

Energy

65.

Change of gas to liquid is:

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Sublimation

d)

Melting

66.

How tightly packed something is:

a)

Mass

b)

Density

c)

Volume

d)

Pressure

67.

The ability to do work is:

a)

Energy

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Physics

d)

Fossil

68.

The study of heredity is:

a)

Physics

b)

Chemistry

c)

Genetics

d)

Biology