This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I ..... at the company for five years when I got the promotion. A) Had been working. B) Have been working. C) Has been working. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been working. 2. By the time he got to the airport, the plane ..... (already) ..... A) Departs. B) Will depart. C) Had departed. D) Depart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had departed. 3. Many months later she understood that they had only ..... to protect her all these years. A) Tried. B) Been trying. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Been trying. 4. Perfect past:We do the homework. A) They had done the homework. B) We have done the homework. C) We did the task. D) We had done the homework. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We had done the homework. 5. By the time I got to the bank most of the staff ..... A) Had gone home. B) Has gone home. C) Have gone home. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had gone home. 6. She ..... him before the conference ..... A) Met/had started. B) Had met/started. C) Meets/ had started. D) Will meet/started. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had met/started. 7. Before I came here, I ..... (speak) to Jack. A) Had spoken. B) Had spoke. C) Had speaked. D) Had speaken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had spoken. 8. She ..... her car carefully yesterday. A) Drived. B) Drave. C) Drove. D) Drive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drove. 9. I ..... to many places of Ecuador. All of them are very beautiful A) Have traveled. B) Had traveled. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have traveled. 10. Sergio (ask) me which animals I (see) in Africa. A) Has asked / had saw. B) Had asked / had seen. C) Asked / saw. D) Asked / had seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asked / had seen. 11. Her nerves began to recover from the shock they ..... A) Receive. B) Received. C) Had received. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had received. 12. I didn't understand yesterday's homework because I ..... in class. I was busy with my phone:( A) Hadn't listened. B) Hadn't been listening. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hadn't been listening. 13. He ..... (work) very hard before he ..... (win) the championship. A) Had worked, won. B) Worked, won. C) Worked, had won. D) Had worked, had won. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had worked, won. 14. The house was very full because Molly and Oliver ..... too many people. A) Had called. B) Had invited. C) Called. D) Invited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had invited. 15. Liz ..... (not/ride) a horse before that day. A) Had ridden. B) Hadn't ridden. C) Hadn't rode. D) Hadn't ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hadn't ridden. 16. Peter ..... very nervous at the airport because he ..... by plane before. A) Was/ did never travell. B) Was/ had never travelled. C) Had been / had never travelled. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was/ had never travelled. 17. After she ..... a new machine, she won a prize. A) Has invented. B) Invented. C) Invents. D) Had invented. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had invented. 18. I ..... a sandwich, so I wasn't hungry. A) Have eaten. B) Have eat. C) Had eaten. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had eaten. 19. I hate the food at that restaurant. I wish we ..... somewhere else. A) Ate. B) Eaten. C) Hadn't eaten. D) Had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had eaten. 20. What's the past participle of feel A) Feelen. B) Felt. C) Felten. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Felt. 21. ..... your medications? A) Had you taken. B) Have you taken. C) Has you taken. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have you taken. 22. Students ..... letters in the past year. A) We had written. B) Have written. C) You had written. D) Had written. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had written. 23. We left the town seven years ago because my dad ..... a better job in Europe. A) Found. B) Have found. C) Had found. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had found. 24. Jess ..... upset because her boyfriend ..... her birthday. A) Were / had forgotten. B) Was / had forgotten. C) Had been / had forgotten. D) Was / forgot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was / had forgotten. 25. We ..... different things before we found a solution. A) Had tried. B) Have tryed. C) Have tried. D) Had tryed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had tried. 26. I wanted to tell you what ..... Carlos and I here in Barcelona. A) Had done. B) We have done. C) Have done. D) We had done. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had done. 27. She ..... dinner before she went to the meeting. A) Eating. B) Eats. C) Ate. D) Had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had eaten. 28. What's the past participle of wake A) Waken. B) Woke. C) Woken. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Woken. 29. She ..... to the store and bought some groceries. A) Goes. B) Going. C) Went. D) Had gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went. 30. It (rain) all summer, so the grass was completely dead. A) Hadn't rained. B) Rained. C) Raining men, aleluya. D) Raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't rained. 31. The children ..... (collect) the apples that ..... (fall) from the tree A) Collected-had fallen. B) Had collected-fallen. C) Collected-fallen. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collected-had fallen. 32. Steve ..... (tell) us Mary ..... (not buy) that car the month before. A) Tell/ hadn't bought. B) Told/ haven't bought. C) Told/ hadn't bought. D) Told/ hasn't bought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Told/ hadn't bought. 33. When using past perfect tense, we use the ..... form of the verb. A) V1. B) V2. C) V3. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) V3. 34. "He went on honeymoon with his second wife." - "Really? I didn't know that he ..... married before." A) Has been. B) Been. C) Have been. D) Had been. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been. 35. He (work) for three different companies so far. A) Has worked. B) Will have worked. C) Had worked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has worked. 36. Only after she ..... her room did the smell disapear. A) Had clean. B) Has cleaned. C) Had cleaned. D) Have cleaned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had cleaned. 37. Complete with the negative past perfect:'Ashley ..... (know) how to roller skate before the trip.' A) Had unknown. B) Had never known. C) Had not known. D) Had known. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had not known. 38. ..... (you / finish) your homework before you went to the cinema? A) Had you finished. B) Have you finished. C) Had you finish. D) Did you finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had you finished. 39. This is the oldest building in the town. It ..... over 200 years ago. A) Was built. B) Had been built. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was built. 40. What is the correct past perfect form of "We rent a car" ? A) We had rented a car. B) ? We 'd rent a car. C) We could rent a car. D) We had rentted a car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We had rented a car. 41. Complete:1. The evil empire ended.2. The Ewoks celebrated.As soon as the evil empire ..... , the Ewoks ..... A) Ended-celebrated. B) Had ended-celebrated. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had ended-celebrated. 42. The train station was much bigger because they ..... (BUILD) a new wing. A) Built. B) Had built. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had built. 43. I wish I ..... him before. A) Had visited. B) Was visiting. C) Have visited. D) Visits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had visited. 44. Is this a correct past perfect sentence? He had had sushi before visiting Japan. A) Yes, it's correct. B) No, it's incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, it's correct. 45. He held a white cloth-it was a serviette he ..... with him. A) Brought. B) Has brought. C) Had brought. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had brought. 46. We moved 7 years ago because my parents had found better jobs. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 47. He ..... (lose) a lot of weight after he ..... (follow) strictly a healthy diet. A) Lost, had followed. B) Losed, had followed. C) Had lost, followed. D) Had lost, had followed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lost, had followed. 48. The thieves had already spent all the money when the police ..... (catch) them. A) Caught. B) Had caught. C) Catched. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caught. 49. The past perfect tense is used A) To tell us the order of the past events or actions. B) To let us know what the past events or actions were. C) To confuse us about the order of the past events or actions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tell us the order of the past events or actions. 50. I have never ..... a bicycle. Can you teach me how to ride a bicycle? A) Ridden. B) Rode. C) Riding. D) Ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ridden. 51. Senobia (brush) ..... her teeth A) Sam Had brushed. B) Has brushed. C) Had brushed. D) I had brushed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had brushed. 52. My computer ..... many problems lately. I will take it to the technician A) Has had. B) Had had. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has had. 53. I ..... my husband for three years when we ..... married. A) Had known/get. B) Had knew/ got. C) Has knew/got. D) Had known/got. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had known/got. 54. Where (she / stay) ..... before she moved to live with her friend? A) Had she stayed. B) Had stayed she. C) Had she stay. D) Had stayed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had she stayed. 55. He ..... his family abroad last year. The children ..... really excited beceause they ..... abroad before. A) Took, was, never been. B) Took, was, had never been. C) Took, were, had never been. D) Took, were, never been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Took, were, had never been. 56. I read the lesson aloud after I ..... the teacher's questions. A) Has answered. B) Has answer. C) Had answer. D) Had answered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had answered. 57. I wish ..... that song. A) They had played. B) They played. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They had played. 58. Change using Past Perfect and Past Simple:First she practiced the dance. Then she made the TikTok video. A) Mandy had made the TikTok video before she practiced the dance. B) Mandy practiced the dance before she made the video. C) Mandy practices dancing and makes TikTok videos. D) Mandy had practiced the dance before she made the TikTok video. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mandy had practiced the dance before she made the TikTok video. 59. Choose the correct answer:When I got home, I realised that I ..... before I lost my wallet! A) Had run. B) Had been running. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been running. 60. I didn't see the beginning, because when I arrived at the cinema, the movie ..... A) Had start. B) Has started. C) Had started. D) Have started. 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