This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Tense – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Tense Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He ..... the car for just a month when someone crashed into it. A) Had been having. B) Has had. C) Had had. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had had. 2. Complete the sentence:By the time the show started, we ..... already ..... our popcorn. A) Have ate. B) Have eaten. C) Had ate. D) Had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had eaten. 3. Complete the sentence:After they ..... the movie, they discussed it over dinner. A) Have watched. B) Watched. C) Had watched. D) Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had watched. 4. The past perfect tense describes an action completed before another action in the past. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Ayahku belum datang ketika Ibuku pergi ke pasar A) My father had not came when my mother go to the market. B) My father had not come when my mother went to the market. C) My father had not came when my mother went to the market. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My father had not come when my mother went to the market. 6. Fill in the blank:After they (had, have, has) completed the project, they celebrated. A) Has. B) Hadn't. C) Had. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had. 7. Complete the sentence:Before the guests arrived, she ..... (set) the table. A) Has set. B) Was setting. C) Set. D) Had set. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had set. 8. He was exhausted because he ..... all night. A) Had been driving. B) Has driven. C) Has been driving. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been driving. 9. ..... Angie before he went to see her in London? A) Has he phoned. B) Have been phone. C) Had he phoned. D) Have he phoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had he phoned. 10. Choose past participle of fly A) Flew. B) Flown. C) Fly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flown. 11. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb to be in past.You ..... tired. A) Was not. B) Were not. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were not. 12. What is the past participle form of lay? A) Layed. B) Layed. C) Laid. D) Lain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laid. 13. Complete the sentence:After they ..... dinner, they watched a movie. A) Had eaten. B) Ate. C) Have eaten. D) Eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had eaten. 14. By the time I arrived, the meeting ..... (start) A) Had started. B) Was starting. C) Started. D) Has been starting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had started. 15. Which sentence uses the past perfect tense correctly to describe the sequence of events? A) After he was eating, he went jogging. B) After he eats, he had gone jogging. C) After he ate, he had gone jogging. D) After he had eaten, he went jogging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After he had eaten, he went jogging. 16. She was happy because she ..... (pass) the exam last week. A) Had pass. B) Had passed. C) Has passed. D) Passed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had passed. 17. I have only lived/have only been living in Geneva for the past few months, though Madeleine, who you met yesterday, lived/has lived here all her life. A) Have only been living/has lived. B) Have only lived/has lived. C) Have only been living/ lived. D) Have only lived/lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have only been living/has lived. 18. Choose the correct auxiliary:By the time she called, I (had, have, has) already eaten dinner. A) Is. B) Will. C) Was. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had. 19. Past participle of "to run" ? A) Gelaufen. B) Gelauft. C) Gelieft. D) Geliefen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gelaufen. 20. Transform the sentence to past perfect:'He eats breakfast.' A) He was eating breakfast. B) He had eaten breakfast. C) He had breakfasted. D) He eats breakfasted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had eaten breakfast. 21. Identify the present perfect tense in the following sentence:She has eaten her lunch. A) Have eaten. B) Had eaten. C) Has eaten. D) Eating. E) Eats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has eaten. 22. Choose the correct verb form:'By the time the show started, we ..... (to find) our seats.' A) Found. B) Had found. C) Have found. D) Find. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had found. 23. Identify the past perfect tense verb phrase.Before 1870 bananas had been rare in the United States; now they are America's most popular fruit. A) They are. B) Most popular fruit. C) Had been. D) Before 1870. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been. 24. Form a sentence using present perfect tense with the verb 'write'. A) I am writing a letter to my friend. B) I will write a letter to my friend. C) I have written a letter to my friend. D) I wrote a letter to my friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I have written a letter to my friend. 25. What is the Past Participle of "Freeze" A) Froze. B) Freeze. C) Frozen. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frozen. 26. Before I talked to you, I had never understood that formula. A) Before talked to you. B) Before I talked to you. C) Talking to you. D) Before talking to you. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before talking to you. 27. By the time I woke up, my brother ..... (already / go) to work. A) Went already. B) Already went. C) Already had gone. D) Had already gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had already gone. 28. Complete the sentence with the correct past perfect form:By the time the guests arrived, the chef ..... already ..... A) Had, prepared. B) Have, prepared. C) Prepare, prepared. D) Preparing, prepares. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had, prepared. 29. They said they ..... to the city last month. A) Camed. B) Had come. C) Have come. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had come. 30. What is the Past Participle of "Lead" A) Led. B) Leaded. C) Lead. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Led. 31. What is the past participle form of draw? A) Drawn. B) Drewn. C) Drawed. D) Drew. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drawn. 32. Choose the correct form of the verb:'She ..... (to live) in London since 2010.' A) Has lived. B) Lived. C) Was living. D) Have lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has lived. 33. Fill in the gap with the correct form of the verb in past perfect:The kitchen was a mess when I got home! It turns out that my daughter ..... (to make) a milkshake without putting the lid on the blender. A) Had made. B) Had make. C) Had maden. D) Has make. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had made. 34. Choose the correct past perfect form:'They (to see) the movie before it was released.' A) They were seeing the movie before it was released. B) They saw the movie before it was released. C) They have seen the movie before it was released. D) They had seen the movie before it was released. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They had seen the movie before it was released. 35. My mom ..... my dad when the lights turned off. A) Had phone. B) Had phoned. C) Has phone. D) Has phoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had phoned. 36. He was very tired because he ..... the bags upstairs. A) Has carried. B) Carried. C) Had carried. D) Have carried. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had carried. 37. Which option best completes this sentence in past perfect tense? They ..... all the pizza before I arrived. A) Eating. B) Had eaten. C) Have eaten. D) Ate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had eaten. 38. Form a sentence using past perfect tense with the verb 'sing'. A) She had sing a beautiful song before the guests arrived. B) She sung a beautiful song before the guests arrived. C) She has sung a beautiful song before the guests arrived. D) She had sung a beautiful song before the guests arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She had sung a beautiful song before the guests arrived. 39. I ..... (finish) my homework when my mom got home. A) Had already finished. B) Already had finished. C) Finished already. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had already finished. 40. When the painter ..... (go), I washed the floor A) Was going. B) Gone. C) Went. D) Had gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had gone. 41. SUPPLY THE SENTENCE WITH THE CORRECT PAST PERFECT TENSE VERB:They (change) ..... the flat tire before they continued driving. A) Has changed. B) Had changed. C) Have changed. D) Changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had changed. 42. I ..... the tomatoes when you came in. A) Has cutted. B) Had cut. C) Has cut. D) Had cutted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had cut. 43. Are you going to the dinner on Saturday? A lot of my other friends were invited/have been invited and I know they'd love to meet you. A) Have been invited. B) Were invited. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have been invited. 44. Complete the sentence with the past perfect form of the verb in parenthesis.After I ..... (got) a cup of yogurt, a cup of fruit juice, and a teaspoon if vanilla, I mixed them together. A) Got. B) Will have gotten. C) Had got. D) Had gotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had gotten. 45. Camilo had ..... ice cream with me. A) Ate. B) Eaten. C) Eated. D) Eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eaten. 46. Choose the correct past perfect form for the sentence:By the time the meeting started, everyone ..... the report. A) Had read. B) Has read. C) Reading. D) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had read. 47. What is a good example of a sentence in PAST PERFECT? A) She had observed the environment and climate change. B) She observed the environment and climate change. C) She had the environment and climate change. D) She had observe the environment and climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had observed the environment and climate change. 48. After the man ..... (to come) home he ..... (to feed) the cat. A) Had come, fed. B) Came, had fed. C) Had come, feeded. D) Came, had feeded. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had come, fed. 49. The past perfect tense can be used without another past action in the sentence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 50. My brother ate all of the cake that our mom ..... A) Nono of them. B) Had been maked. C) Has made. D) Had made. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had made. 51. Fill in the gap with the correct form of the verb in past perfect:I basically spend my life at work, so when I found out my boss ..... (to give) the promotion to someone else, I was furious. A) Had gives. B) Had gave. C) Had given. D) Had givent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had given. 52. ..... Dad ..... the parent's letter before he signed it? A) Does read. B) Had read. C) Do read. D) Did read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had read. 53. What is the correct order of the following question?called/he/you/Had/before/you/left/office/the/? A) Had he called you before you left this office?. B) Had called you before you left the office?. C) Had he called you before you left the office?. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had he called you before you left the office?. 54. Correct the verb tense error in this sentence and change it to past perfect tense:Fredrick have eating dinner, then he had eaten dessert. A) Change have eating to will have ate. B) Change had eaten to have eating to have eat. C) Change had eaten to had eated. D) Change have eating to had eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change have eating to had eaten. 55. Identify the verb in past perfect tense:'He had already left when I arrived.' A) Had been leaving. B) Had arrived. C) Had left. D) Left. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had left. 56. Do this sentense complett:When I turned on the TV, ..... A) The programm had already started. B) But he had already got one. C) I had had a huge lunch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The programm had already started. 57. Fill in the blank with the correct past perfect form:She ..... (not finish) her assignment before the deadline. A) Not finished. B) Had not finished. C) Had not finish. D) Did not finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not finished. 58. When she called me, I ..... (finish) my homework. A) Has finished. B) Had finish. C) Had already finished. D) Finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had already finished. 59. The children collected the chestnuts that ..... from the tree. A) Had fallen. B) Had been falling. C) Has follen. D) Have fallen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had fallen. 60. La estructura del Pasado Perfecto negativo es: A) Subj. + hasn't/haven't + verb in past participle + comp. B) Subj. + has/have + verb in past participle + comp. C) Subj. + hadn't + verb in past participle + comp. D) Subj. + had + verb in past participle + comp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subj. + hadn't + verb in past participle + comp. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Perfect Tense Quiz 1Past Perfect Tense Quiz 2Past Perfect Tense Quiz 3Past Perfect Tense Quiz 4Past Perfect Tense Quiz 5Past Perfect Tense Quiz 6Past Perfect Tense Quiz 7Past Perfect Tense Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books