This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word often goes with this tense? A) Next week. B) Since. C) Tomorrow. D) Now. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Since. 2. They (talk) ..... on the phone when the rain poured down A) Have been talking. B) Will have talking. C) Are talking. D) Had been talking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been talking. 3. Everywhere looked white because it ..... (snow) all night. A) HAD SNOWED. B) HAD BEEN SNOWING. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HAD BEEN SNOWING. 4. The explorer ..... that it would be so difficult to cross the river. A) Not imagine. B) Had not imagined. C) Have not imagine. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not imagined. 5. She ..... him the cake that she had baked. A) Had been given. B) Given. C) Given. D) Gave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gave. 6. ORGANIZE:had descended/ the miners/ 700 meters A) Had descended the miners 700 meters. B) The miners had descended 700 meters. C) Descended 700 meters the miners had . D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The miners had descended 700 meters. 7. She had finished her homework when I called her. A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect. 8. Which of the following is a question with Past Perfect Continuous? A) Did you study English?. B) Are you studying Enin US?. C) How long have you been studying English?. D) How long had you been studying English in US?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How long had you been studying English in US?. 9. I ..... the sauce while Bob ..... up the vegetables. A) Was preparing / was cutting. B) Were preparing / were cutting. C) Prepared / cut. D) Had prepared / has been cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was preparing / was cutting. 10. I ..... (wait) here for hour last Monday before the bus came. A) Had been waiting. B) Was waiting. C) Have been waiting. D) Had waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 11. My mother noticed that I had ..... my room. It was clean and shiny. A) CLEAN. B) CLEANED. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CLEANED. 12. Joe said that he ..... for hours. A) Has been waiting. B) Had been waiting. C) Have been waiting. D) Had waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 13. After the janitor ..... the gate, he brought the dangerous dogs too. A) Had locked. B) Had been locking. C) Had lock. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had locked. 14. She ..... (go) home by the time he arrived at the party. A) Had been going. B) Has gone. C) Had gone. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had gone. 15. They were punished because they ..... at school. A) Had misbehaved. B) Had been misbehaving. C) Were misbehaving. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had misbehaved. 16. Julie and Anne ..... before the party. A) Hadn't meet. B) Hasn't met. C) Hadn't met. D) Didn't met. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hadn't met. 17. ..... you ..... long before the taxi arrived? A) Have; been waiting. B) Been; waiting. C) Had; been waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had; been waiting. 18. Mike ..... his friends before he went abroad for two months. (visit) A) Had visited. B) Had been visiting. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had visited. 19. Jolly ..... to Paris three years ago. A) Went. B) Gone. C) Had gone. D) Had been going. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Went. 20. Past Perfect continuous is used when the focus is on ..... of a past action happening before another past action. A) End. B) Duration. C) Result. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duration. 21. We admired the picture that Lucy ..... ? ..... A) Painted. B) Paints. C) Had painted. D) Have painted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had painted. 22. I (finish) ..... my homework before I went to bed. A) Had finished. B) Finished. C) Had finish. D) Have finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had finished. 23. Once they had heard the explosion, they left the building immediately. A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect. 24. When I got home, Tom was sitting in front of the TV. He had just turned it off. A) He had been watched a film. B) He had been looking at a film. C) He was watched a film. D) He had been watching a film. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He had been watching a film. 25. Sally gained weight because she ..... overeating A) Been. B) Has been. C) Had been. D) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been. 26. To put emphasis on duration of an action and finished in the past before another past action, usually with since or for. A) Past Pefect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) Past Simple. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect Continuous. 27. When I arrived, she ..... for two hours. A) Has been studying. B) Was studying. C) Had been studying. D) Studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been studying. 28. When he got to the finish line, he ..... for three hours. A) Had been running. B) Had run. C) Had ran. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been running. 29. When do we use the past perfect continuous tense? A) To talk about future plans. B) To express actions that were ongoing before a certain point in the past. C) To discuss present habits. D) To describe actions that were completed in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express actions that were ongoing before a certain point in the past. 30. The community manager ..... feedback before updating the forum rules. A) A) had been collecting. B) B) will collect. C) C) was been collecting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A) had been collecting. ← 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