This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Tense – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Tense Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do you form a negative sentence in past perfect tense? A) Have not + past participle. B) Was not + past participle. C) Had not + past participle. D) Did not + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had not + past participle. 2. I ..... never ..... such a nice beach before I went to Hawaii. A) Has-saw. B) Is-seeing. C) Had-saw. D) Had-seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had-seen. 3. Once the servant ..... the floor, we would spread out the mat on the floor. A) Had swept. B) Has swept. C) Had sweep. D) Will had swept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had swept. 4. The sun had set before I ..... (BE) ready to go A) Have. B) Is. C) Were. D) Was. E) Has. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was. 5. Convert the following present perfect sentence to past perfect tense:They have visited Paris many times. A) They visited Paris many times. B) They had visited Paris many times. C) They will visit Paris many times. D) They are visiting Paris many times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They had visited Paris many times. 6. Had they ..... the auditorium after the function? ( leave ) A) Leaves. B) Left. C) Lived. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left. 7. Rewrite the following sentence in past perfect tense:'She had already left when I arrived.' A) She already left when I arrived. B) She was gone when I arrived. C) She left before I arrived. D) She had already left when I arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She had already left when I arrived. 8. Negative Sentences structure is A) Subject + Had + Past Participle + Object. B) Subject + Had + Not + Past Participle + Object. C) Had + Subject + Past Participle + Object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject + Had + Not + Past Participle + Object. 9. He (not / be) ..... to Cape Town before 1997 A) Had not be. B) Had not been. C) Not been. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not been. 10. He couldn't believe his eyes! His father ..... him a new laptop as a birthday gift. A) Bought. B) Was bought. C) Had bought. D) Has bought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had bought. 11. When she (finish) reading the book, she (put) it back on the shelf. A) Finished, had put. B) Had finished, put. C) Had finished, putted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had finished, put. 12. Anna returned from France, where she ..... French. A) Had been learning. B) Learned. C) Had learned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been learning. 13. We ate cherries from the tree that my grandfather ..... A) Planted many years before. B) Did planted many years before. C) Have planted many years before. D) Had planted many years before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had planted many years before. 14. Larry ..... his homework already by the time Roy came over. A) Had finish. B) Had finished. C) Finishes. D) Have finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had finished. 15. After the gardener ..... up the leaves, he burnt them. A) Had swept. B) Have swept. C) Has swept. D) Swept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had swept. 16. The number of horses in Canada ..... slightly over the past few years. A) Have decreased. B) Decreased. C) Has decreased. D) Had decreased. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has decreased. 17. I had ..... seen such a beautiful scene before I visited Turkey. A) Never. B) Yet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never. 18. 6-No sooner ..... he made a mistake than he apologized. A) Had. B) Have. C) Has. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 19. They had left before I woke up. From the passage, which sentence is the event that happened first? A) Had. B) I woke up. C) Before. D) They had left. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They had left. 20. She ..... in Sweden before she went to Norway. (to live) A) Have lived. B) Had lived. C) Has lived. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had lived. 21. He ..... us the item had been shipped. A) Talk. B) Asking. C) Say. D) Told. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Told. 22. ..... we not ..... to discuss social issues ( gather ) A) Had gathered. B) Had gather. C) Have gathering. D) Have gathered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had gathered. 23. Abigail and Sarah had ..... for permission to join the camp. A) Ask. B) Asking. C) Asked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asked. 24. I had already gone to bed when ..... A) Philip telephoned. B) Philip had telephoned. C) Philip telephones. D) Philip was telephone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philip telephoned. 25. The past perfect is a verb tense that ..... A) Neither option is correct. B) Is not used primarily to express actions that occurred before others that took place in the past. C) Is mainly used to express actions that occurred before others that took place in the past. D) Is mainly used to express actions that occurred before others that take place in the present. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is mainly used to express actions that occurred before others that took place in the past. 26. Laura repaired her glasses because her brother ..... them. (to break) A) Had broke. B) Had broken. C) Has broken. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had broken. 27. Which of the following is the correct conjugation of the verb 'to eat' in the past perfect tense for the pronoun 'I'? a) had eat b) had ate c) had eaten d) had eating A) Had eating. B) Had eat. C) Had eaten. D) Had ate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had eaten. 28. The class rep had to ..... his classmates' phone during Amal Islami A) Collected. B) Collect. C) Collects. D) Collecting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collect. 29. ..... someone else when you applied for the job? A) Was they hired. B) Were they hired. C) Did they hired. D) Had they hired. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had they hired. 30. He asked me to give his book back but I ..... it. A) Was lost. B) Had lost. C) Lost. D) Have lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had lost. 31. By the time I opened Google Classroom, the English online class ..... (not finish) A) Has not been finishing. B) Had not finished. C) Was finished. D) Have finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not finished. 32. She ..... the box after she ..... the key. A) Had opened / found. B) Opened / had found. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opened / had found. 33. My friend and I had ..... that book by the time the concert finished. A) Readed. B) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Read. 34. Which action happened first? I left the house after the rain had stopped. A) Rain stopped. B) Left the house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rain stopped. 35. The cyclist ..... he crossed the main street. A) Looks cautious when. B) Was looked cautious when. C) Looked with caution after. D) Had looked cautiously before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had looked cautiously before. 36. After Eric ..... breakfast he ..... his friend. A) Had made / phoned. B) Made / had phoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had made / phoned. 37. What are some common irregular verbs in the past perfect tense? A) Has. B) Will. C) Had, been, gone, seen, done, had, said, made, taken, given. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had, been, gone, seen, done, had, said, made, taken, given. 38. Which sentence has a similar meaning? Someone stole my wallet. Then I found my bag and the wallet was not there. A) When I found my bag, I noticed that someone had stolen my wallet. B) When I found my bag, I had noticed that someone stole my wallet. C) When I found my bag, I had noticed that someone had stolen my wallet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When I found my bag, I noticed that someone had stolen my wallet. 39. Electricity had ..... off before I finished my assignment A) Gone. B) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gone. 40. Before he went to school, he ..... A) Had been breakfast. B) Has breakfast. C) Was having breakfast. D) Had had breakfast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had had breakfast. 41. They ..... TV when the earthquake occurred. A) Is watched. B) Are watch. C) Is watch. D) Were watching. E) Are watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were watching. 42. Past Simple or Past Perfect? The teacher (correct) the tests that the pupiles (write). A) Corrected + wrote. B) Had correct + wrote. C) Corrected + had written. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corrected + had written. 43. I ..... in London, before I moved to Paris. A) Has been living. B) Had lived. C) Was living. D) Is living. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had lived. 44. Which word completes the sentence?When I got home, the children had already ..... to bed. A) Going. B) Went. C) Gone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gone. 45. Had they ..... to her before? A) Spoke. B) Spoken. C) Speaking. D) Spoked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spoken. 46. The visitors ..... the exhibition before. A) Have see. B) Has see. C) Has seen. D) Had seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had seen. 47. By the time Tom went to bed, he ..... (not write) anything in his diary. A) Had not written. B) Had not write. C) Had not writen. D) Have not written. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had not written. 48. What is the formation of past perfect tense for the verb 'go'? A) Has gone. B) Went. C) Had went. D) Had gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had gone. 49. My family and I ..... at the hotel twice in the 1990s. A) Had stayed. B) Had been staying. C) Stay. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had stayed. 50. Inah couldn't come to my house last night because she ..... already ..... other plans. A) Had make. B) Hated the food. C) Had made. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had made. 51. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. By the time I could talk to her, she ..... to quit her job. A) Decided. B) Had decided. C) Have decided. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had decided. 52. ANGGUN ..... (TAKE) A BATH BEFORE SHE WENT TO SCHOOL YESTERDAY A) TOOK. B) WAS TAKEN. C) HAD TAKEN. D) TAKES. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HAD TAKEN. 53. ..... Summer ..... to wear a Halloween costume when Savanna told her not to? A) Did plan. B) Had planned. C) Has planned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had planned. 54. Before they ..... to Liverpool, they ..... everything. A) Moved / had sold. B) Had moved / sold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moved / had sold. 55. Mark ..... foreign languages in high school. A) Is studying. B) Had study. C) Had studied. D) Has studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had studied. 56. David ..... to visit to Europe. A) Had choose. B) Have choose. C) Had chosen. D) Has choose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had chosen. 57. She (go) out after she (dress). A) Went, had dressed. B) Had gone, dressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Went, had dressed. 58. I ..... (believe) you since we met each other in the library A) Belief. B) Believe. C) Was believing. D) Had believed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had believed. 59. After Fred ..... (to spend) his holiday in Italy he ..... (to want) to learn Italian. A) Spent-wanted. B) Had spent-wants. C) Had spent-wanted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had spent-wanted. 60. I couldn't buy any groceries last night because when I got to the supermarket, it ..... already ..... A) Had closed. B) Had close. C) Closed. D) None of above. 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