7 th Grade Language Usage
Prepositions
Name
Question #1:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
Scientists have led the way in the battle against the black fly.
A. Scientists
B. led
C. against
Question #2:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
Scientists have sprayed pesticides on rivers since the 1970s.
A. Sprayed
B. since
C. rivers
Question #3:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
Ninety percent of the areas sprayed have had no new cases of river flies.
A. areas
B. have
C. of
Question #4:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
In West Africa, most people still live in mud and thatched houses.
A. in
B. still
C. most
Question #5:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
Since they do not have running water, people go to the nearest stream for
A. do
B. for
C. go
Question #6:
Which of these answer choices is a preposition?
They must also find firewood beside the streams to build fires.
A. build
B. must
C. beside
Question #7:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
Subsistence farmers are barely able to grow enough food for their families.
A. farmers
B. families
C. barely
Question #8:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
Plantation farmers do well with their crops.
A. farmers
B. crops
C. do
Question #9:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
They lead the world in the production of coffee.
A. world
B. production
C. they
Question #10:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
Have you read about the Sahel droughts?
A. read
B. Sahel
C. droughts
Question #11:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
Overgrazing and drought have hastened the advance of the Sahara Desert into the Sahel.
A. drought
B. advance
C. Sahel
Question #12:
Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.
Until 100 years ago, people knew so little about
Africa that it was called "the dark continent."
A. continent
B. years
C. ago
Question #13:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Africa has some OF THE MOST DREADED
DISEASES known to man.
A. adverb
B. adjective

7 th Grade Language Usage
Prepositions
Name
Question #14:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Early European explorers would not venture past the coast BECAUSE OF DREADED DISEASES.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #15:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb? Many
Europeans set up trading posts ALONG THE
COASTS.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #16:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Former American slaves settled IN LIBERIA.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #17:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Nigeria is one OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS
COUNTRIES in Africa.
A. adjective
B. adverb
Question #18:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
BEFORE EUROPEAN COLONIZATION, there were no separate countries.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #19:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Nearly all of Africa belonged TO EUROPEANS in the nineteenth century.
A. adjective
B. adverb
Question #20:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
By the 1970s, most colonies had gained their independence FROM EUROPEAN DOMINATION.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #21:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Africans still use the language and customs OF THE
COUNTRIES which controlled them.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #22:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
The Nigerian government had used money FROM
OIL EXPORTS to develop industry.
A. adjective
B. adverb
Question #23:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Long BEFORE EUROPEANS ARRIVED, most of
Africa had been settled.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #24:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
Africans traded many types of goods TO THE
EUROPEANS.
A. adverb
B. adjective
Question #25:
Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?
IN SPITE OF THE RAPID GROWTH of cities, most
Africans still live in small villages.
A. adverb
B. adjective

7 th Grade Language Usage
Prepositions
Answer Key
1. C -against
2. B -since
3. C -of
4. A -in
5. B -for
6. C -beside
7. B -families
8. B -crops
9. B -production
10. C -droughts
11. C -Sahel
12. B -years
13. B -adjective
14. A -adverb
15. A -adverb
16. A -adverb
17. A -adjective
18. A -adverb
19. B -adverb
20. B -adjective
21. B -adjective
22. A -adjective
23. A -adverb
24. A -adverb
25. A -adverb