This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 13 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Mary went shopping, all the shops ..... (close) A) Has closed. B) Have closed. C) Had closed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had closed. 2. Sarah is a true vegetarian. She ..... chicken all her life. A) Did not eat. B) Not eat. C) Have not eaten. D) Has not eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has not eaten. 3. By the time we arrived, they ..... (clean) the house for hours. A) Had been cleaning. B) Has been cleaned. C) Had been cleaned. D) Has been cleaning. E) Had been clean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been cleaning. 4. Where do you put 'had' in a sentence to make a question in Past Perfect Continuous? A) Before the subject. B) After the subject. C) At the end of a sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before the subject. 5. When I phoned him yesterday, he ..... a shower and didn't hear my call. A) Was taking. B) Have been taking. C) Has been taking. D) Took. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was taking. 6. We ate appples from the tree that my grandfather ..... (to plant) many years before. A) Have planted. B) Has planted. C) Had planted. D) Haven't planted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had planted. 7. .... (she / fight) against the disease for long before she died? A) She been fighting. B) Has she been fighting. C) Had she been fighting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had she been fighting. 8. Is the following correct?I had been drinking coffee all morning. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 9. He hasn't decided on a career yet, but he ..... about it lately. A) Have been thinking. B) Has being thinking. C) Has been thinking. D) Had been thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has been thinking. 10. Why was your jacket so wet?-Because it ..... all day. A) Rained. B) Had rained. C) Had been raining. D) Raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been raining. 11. I did not have any money because I ..... my wallet. A) Had loosed. B) Had lost. C) Lost. D) Was loosing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had lost. 12. Amalia ..... (move) to New York before she ..... (get) married. A) Has move / got. B) Had moved / got. C) Moved /had gotten. D) Moved / got. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had moved / got. 13. They had been walking for over 6 hours ..... A) Progressing Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect with been. C) Past Perfect. D) Past Perfect Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Perfect Continuous. 14. My father ..... his car A) Had fixing been. B) Had been fixing. C) Had been fix. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been fixing. 15. Which one of these about past perfect continuous is correct? A) Past Perfect Continuous stresses duration, not just completion. B) Past perfect continuous focuses on the action that had already been completed. C) Past perfect continuous is for an action that was not finished. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect Continuous stresses duration, not just completion. 16. He ..... painting the front wall of the house a moment ago. A) Just finished. B) Just finish. C) Has just finished. D) Finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has just finished. 17. They ..... for this moment for years. A) Had wait. B) Hadn't been wait. C) Had been waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 18. We lived in the house that my father ..... ..... A) Is building. B) Had building. C) Was built. D) Had built. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had built. 19. You ..... the party by the time everything happened. (leave) A) Had left. B) Had been leaving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had left. 20. The colour of the dress was much brighter that it ..... in the internet advert. A) Had been looking. B) Had looked. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had looked. 21. My best friend's name is Fatima. I ..... her for about 8 years. A) Have known. B) Knew. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have known. 22. They hadn't been talking ..... June. A) Since. B) By. C) At. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Since. 23. Yesterday, my brother said he (stop) ..... smoking for three months. A) Was stopping. B) Had been stopping. C) Stop. D) Stopped. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been stopping. 24. Which sentence correctly uses the Past Perfect Continuous tense with a time expression? A) They had been studying English tomorrow. B) We had been waiting for you since morning. C) He has been sleeping since two hours. D) I had been going to the gym next week. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We had been waiting for you since morning. 25. Paul and Molly ..... on the phone for an hour when the line broke. A) Had been talking. B) Had been talked. C) Have talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been talking. 26. Harold ..... her secret for a while. A) Had know. B) Had knewn. C) Had known. D) Had knew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had known. 27. Is the following correct?I didn't play tennis with Jack yesterday because I had already played tennis with Peter that morning. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 28. I ..... (wait) for her for hours before she came (PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS) A) Had waited. B) Has been waiting. C) Had been waiting. D) Had been waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 29. Before last summer, I ..... in a foreign country. A) Never lived. B) Was never living. C) Had never lived. D) Had never been living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had never lived. 30. Studying in a boarding school ..... Mark to make international friends. A) Had helped. B) Has helped. C) Had been helping. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had helped. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Perfect Continuous Quiz 1Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 2Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 3Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 4Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 5Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 6Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 7Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books