Past Perfect Tense Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Past Perfect Tense – Quiz 8
1. Fill in the Blank with the past verb that is in parenthesis:The cat _____ (go) into my bedroom while we ate dinner.
A) Had gone.
B) Had going.
C) Had go.
D) Was good.
2. Dinosaurs _____ hundreds of millions of years ago.
A) Lived.
B) Had lived.
3. Terry was afraid to go home as he _____ the Mathematics test.
A) Has failed.
B) Had been failing.
C) Failed.
D) Had failed.
4. What is the formation of past perfect tense for the verb 'go'?.
A) Has gone.
B) Went.
C) Had went.
D) Had gone.
5. My family and I _____ at the hotel twice in the 1990s.
A) Had stayed.
B) Had been staying.
C) Stay.
D) None of above.
6. Before world war I, the majority of Americans _____ in rural areas or in small towns.
A) Has lived.
B) Lived.
C) Had lived.
D) Has been living.
7. She _____ the truth by the time her teacher _____ her.
A) Had realized-told.
B) Realized-had told.
C) Had realized-had told.
D) Realized-told.
8. We _____ (run) three other marathons before entering the Colourful marathon.
A) Have run.
B) Had run.
C) Run.
D) Have been run.
9. Inah couldn't come to my house last night because she _____ already _____ other plans.
A) Had made .
B) Had make.
C) Hated the food.
D) None of above.
10. Julie didn't arrive until after I (leave).
A) Has left.
B) Left.
C) Had left.
D) Was left.
11. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. By the time I could talk to her, she _____ to quit her job.
A) Had decided.
B) Decided.
C) Have decided.
D) None of above.
12. By the time we got to the theatre, the play (already, start) _____ .
A) Had already been starting.
B) Had already started.
13. ANGGUN _____ (TAKE) A BATH BEFORE SHE WENT TO SCHOOL YESTERDAY.
A) HAD TAKEN.
B) WAS TAKEN.
C) TOOK.
D) TAKES.
14. What is the negative form of the past perfect tense?.
A) Did not have.
B) Was not having.
C) Had not.
D) Has not had.
15. _____ Summer _____ to wear a Halloween costume when Savanna told her not to?.
A) Had _____ planned.
B) Did _____ plan.
C) Has _____ planned.
D) None of above.
16. _____ before the participants came?.
A) Had the room been brighter.
B) Had the room brighter.
17. Before they _____ to Liverpool, they _____ everything.
A) Had moved / sold.
B) Moved / had sold.
18. It was a very difficult movie, but I _____ it because I _____ the book.
A) Had understood, read.
B) Understood, had read.
C) Read, had understood.
D) Had read, understood.
19. When I closed the door, I realised that I _____ my keys inside.
A) Left.
B) Had left.
20. Mark _____ foreign languages in high school.
A) Had studied.
B) Is studying.
C) Had study.
D) Has studied.
21. I returned home because I had forgotten my notebook at home.
A) False.
B) True.
22. When we _____ the tour of the city we decided to go and eat in a local restaurant.
A) Had been doing.
B) Was doing.
C) Had doing.
D) Had done.
23. David _____ to visit to Europe.
A) Has choose.
B) Had choose.
C) Had chosen.
D) Have choose.
24. Jill had phoned her dad before she _____ the office.
A) Has left.
B) Had left.
C) Is leaving.
D) Left.
25. We use "had + verb in participle" to talk about actions that happened BEFORE another action in the past.(eg:She had seen the robber before he saw her).
A) NO.
B) YES.