This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Tense – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Tense Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Convert the following present perfect sentence to past perfect tense:I have seen that movie before. A) I saw that movie before. B) I seen that movie before. C) I had seen that movie before. D) I have saw that movie before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I had seen that movie before. 2. Write the past perfect tense of the verb in parentheses on the line. She (make) ..... a special blanket for the baby. A) Had made. B) Made. C) Make. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had made. 3. The cat had ..... its owner yesterday. A) Find. B) Finding. C) Found. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Found. 4. Joe seemed tired because he ..... the roof. A) Have repaired. B) Had repaired. C) Have repairing. D) Was repaired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had repaired. 5. The thieves had already spent the money when ..... A) The police caught them. B) The police catched them. C) The police catches them. D) The police catch them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The police caught them. 6. Why ..... so much rice today? A) Have you ate. B) Has you eaten. C) Has you ate. D) Have you eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have you eaten. 7. I was sleeping when somebody knocked the door A) I was slept when somebody knocked the door. B) I had slept when somebody knocked the door. C) I have slept when somebody knocked the door. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I had slept when somebody knocked the door. 8. I ..... (analyze) the onion cells before the teacher asked me to submit the result of the analysis. A) Had analyzed. B) Has analyzing. C) Have been analyzed. D) Have analyzing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had analyzed. 9. They hadn't ..... the project yet A) Completed. B) Completting. C) Completed. D) Completely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Completed. 10. He ..... (drive) his car for 10 minutes when he realized it had a flat tyre. A) Had driven. B) Had been driving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had driven. 11. Because we use the past perfect to highlight two separate points in the past, we often use the conjunctions before, when, because, until, or by the time to specify the order in which they occurred in time. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 12. The following is an example of a sentence from the simple past. A) I had studied present tense. B) I had been studying present tense. C) I studied present tense. D) I was studying present tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I studied present tense. 13. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence in past perfect tense! After they had ..... the shellfish, they began to feel sick. A) Ate. B) Eated. C) Eats. D) Eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eaten. 14. The storm damaged the bridge but the man had crossed it. Which of the following is correct? A) The man crossed the bridge before the storm damaged it. B) The man did not cross the bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The man crossed the bridge before the storm damaged it. 15. Where ..... the security guard gone? A) Had. B) Have. C) Did. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 16. When I got home, my dad ..... (already start) cooking. A) Has already started. B) Had already started. C) Have already started. D) Had already start. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had already started. 17. He ..... the party before he left for Japan. A) Had joined. B) Has joined. C) Have joined. D) Has joins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had joined. 18. We ..... finished eating dinner. A) Had not. B) Not had. C) 'd had not. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had not. 19. Summer ..... to go to Savanna before she received the invitation. A) Had hoped. B) Hoped. C) Hopes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had hoped. 20. The man at the door (allow) them to enter when they (show) him the tickets. A) Had allowed, showed. B) Allowed, had showed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allowed, had showed. 21. After she (cook) the dinner, she (lay) the table. A) Cooked, had laid. B) Had cooked, laid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had cooked, laid. 22. Now you are telling your lovely mother that you had deleted the application of PUBG game when you prepared yourself to face final examination. What the type of the tense that is used in the sentence above? A) Present tense. B) Future perfect tense. C) Past continuous tense. D) Past perfect tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past perfect tense. 23. The girl looked at her car, but she couldn't find it anywhere. Somebody ..... it. A) Has stolen. B) Had stolen. C) Have stolen. D) Stole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had stolen. 24. Maya Markowitz ..... to play with Summer but she did not want to touch the ball which Auggie had touched. A) Had wanted. B) Wanted. C) Didn't want. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had wanted. 25. Mark's face was covered in jam as he ..... strawberry jam sandwich. A) Has been eating. B) Ate. C) Had been eating . D) Was eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been eating . 26. She ..... made me jealous of her achievement. A) Has. B) Had. C) Have. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had. 27. Mr. Hilman ..... an English teacher before he went to London. A) Has been. B) Have been. C) Had been. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been. 28. I had ..... done such a useful test before I took this one:) A) None. B) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 29. The baby ..... before her father came. A) Cried. B) Cry. C) Had cried. D) Had been crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had cried. 30. I ..... (not clean) my shoes before I went on a holiday. A) Have been cleaning. B) Had not cleaned. C) Had not cleanen. D) Had cleaned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not cleaned. 31. If we want to emphasize that something never happened before a given time, event, or action in the past, we can also place the word never before the verb had. For instance: "Never had I felt so alive. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 32. Before I went to the cinema, I studied for my English test. A) Incorrect. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect. 33. Convert the following past simple sentence to past perfect tense:She wrote a letter to her friend. A) She had wrote a letter to her friend. B) She had written a letter to her friend. C) She wrote a letter for her friend. D) She has written a letter to her friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She had written a letter to her friend. 34. Which verb is irregular in past perfect tense? A) Have. B) Do. C) Be. D) Go. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Be. 35. She ..... (throw) the letter away when she noticed it was not important. A) Had been throwing. B) Had thrown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had thrown. 36. How long ..... you ..... your mobile phone? A) Have had. B) Has been having. C) Did had. D) Have been having. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have had. 37. When we ..... back to our home village last month, it ..... so much. A) Had come/ has changed. B) Came/ has changed. C) Had come/ changed. D) Came/ had changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Came/ had changed. 38. What is the correct question form in past perfect tense for the sentence:'They had finished their homework.'? A) Have they finished their homework?. B) Had they finished their homework?. C) Did they finish their homework?. D) Were they finishing their homework?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had they finished their homework?. 39. Before we (can) get up the bus, it (start) moving. A) Could, started. B) Could, had started. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Could, had started. 40. When Tim parked the car, we ..... the Spider Man tickets already! A) Bought. B) Had been buying. C) Have bought. D) Had bought . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had bought . 41. Doctor Vero ..... the patient before she received a call. A) Has examine. B) Had examine. C) Has examined. D) Had examined. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had examined. 42. Choose the correct option to complete the question ..... breakfast when you got up? A) Had James already cooked. B) Has James already cook. C) Had James already cook. D) Did James already cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had James already cooked. 43. Events that happen later and end later, what tense is used? A) Present Perfect Tense. B) Past Perfect Tense. C) Present Simple Tense. D) Past Simple Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Simple Tense. 44. The following are the types of verbs used in the past perfect tense. A) V1. B) Vs. C) V1+ing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vs. 45. When I got to the house, Hassan wasn't there. He ..... A) Had already left. B) Left already. C) Wasn't already leave. D) Have already left. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had already left. 46. The pupils ..... their homework last week. A) Do. B) Had done. C) Have do. D) Has do. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had done. 47. S + had + past participle is the formula of ..... A) Simple present. B) Past perfect. C) Simple past. D) Present perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past perfect. 48. Joshua and I had bought the tickets long before they ..... the concert. A) Cancels. B) Canceled. C) Will cancel. D) Had canceled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canceled. 49. After she ..... ( go ) out, a stranger ..... ( come ) to see her. A) Have goes coming. B) Had gone came. C) Have gone came. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had gone came. 50. Choose the correct form for each questions. I. Had Helmey not joined the Google Meet before it started? A) Had + subject + past participle. B) Had + past participle + subject. C) Had + not + past participle + subject. D) Had + subject + not + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had + subject + not + past participle. 51. Our teachers ..... some explanations in PPT as the material before they teached us A) Has record. B) Recorded. C) Had recorded. D) Records. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had recorded. 52. By the time the ship reached the island, more then twenty sailors ..... A) Died. B) Dies. C) Had died. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had died. 53. The rain (stop) when I (wake) up. A) Had stopped, woke. B) Stopped, had waken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had stopped, woke. 54. Noura left the restaurant after she ..... eating. A) Had have finished. B) Have finish. C) Had finished. D) Has finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had finished. 55. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence in past perfect tense! When we had ..... dinner, we went out. A) Finishing. B) Finished. C) Finishes. D) Finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Finished. 56. The storm destroyed the building that we ..... last year. A) Building. B) Has build. C) Had built. D) Have built. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had built. 57. Sarah thought she ..... to that zoo before. A) Had be. B) Had been. C) Had. D) Has been. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been. 58. What is the best answer for the following question? Tommy, what's going on? What are you looking for? A) I lost the key that my mom had given to me. B) I went downstairs because I had heard a noise. C) I hadn't played tennis before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I lost the key that my mom had given to me. 59. Which word completes the sentence? We ..... been out long when it started to rain. A) Hadn't. B) Had. C) Didn't. D) Weren't. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't. 60. She answered all of the questions in the exam because she ..... very well. A) Was studied. B) Has been studied. 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