This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Simple Vs Past Progressive – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. While he ..... an e-mail, the phone rang. A) Wrote. B) Was writing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was writing. 2. Susan ..... history when I ..... home. A) Was studying-came. B) Studied-came. C) Was studying-was coming. D) Studied-was coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was studying-came. 3. The car (make) ..... strange noises all the way home. A) Made. B) Was making. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was making. 4. Nathalie ..... in the hospital when I met her A) Worked. B) Was working. C) Works. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was working. 5. Where are my friend ..... I most need them? A) WHILE. B) WHEN. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WHEN. 6. Gil ..... when she ..... her leg. A) Skied, broke. B) Was skiing, was breaking. C) Skied, was breaking. D) Was skiing, broke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was skiing, broke. 7. I didn't ..... a laptop. I ..... a tablet. A) Buy / bought. B) To buy / buyed. C) Bought / bought. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buy / bought. 8. What ..... doing at seven last night? A) Were you. B) Do you. C) You were. D) Did you. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were you. 9. Complete: ..... are you today? A) HOW. B) WHAT. C) WHO. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HOW. 10. At this time last year, I ..... (attend) an English course. A) Attending. B) Was attending. C) Attend. D) Attends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was attending. 11. He ..... (sleep) when the alarm went off. A) Sleeps. B) Was sleeping. C) Was sleep. D) Is sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was sleeping. 12. What is the past of the verb "Think" (pensar)? A) Thought. B) Thinked. C) Thinkked. D) Though. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thought. 13. While I ..... (listen) to music, I ..... (hear) the door! A) Was listening, heard. B) Listened, was hearing. C) Listening, were hearing. D) Were listening, heard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was listening, heard. 14. When they ..... the museum, the sun ..... A) Were leaving / left. B) Left/ was shining. C) Was leaving/ was leaving. D) Were leaving/ were leaving. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left/ was shining. 15. Jim ..... (wait) at one airport while Max ..... (wait) at the other. What a disaster! A) Was waiting/waited. B) Was waiting/was waiting. C) Waited/waited. D) Waited/was waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was waiting/was waiting. 16. He ..... (not go) to the party last Friday. A) Has not gone. B) Didn't go. C) Was not going. D) Hadn't gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Didn't go. 17. I ..... (call) her, but she didn't answer. A) Call. B) Calling. C) Calls. D) Called. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Called. 18. ..... he was young, he used to smoke a lot A) WHILE. B) WHEN. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WHEN. 19. She was 30 last year. A) Present simple. B) Past simple. C) Past progressive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past simple. 20. Julie ..... her bedroom when she ..... a huge spider on the wall. A) Was tidying/was finding. B) Was tidying/found. C) Tidied/found. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was tidying/found. 21. Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence.When I called the police ..... A) The robber was taking the money. B) The cats took a shower. C) Sully went to the beach. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The robber was taking the money. 22. I (work) on my project when the computer (crash). A) Was working, crashed. B) Worked, crashing. C) Will work, crashed. D) Is working, crashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was working, crashed. 23. She closed the window because some children made / were making a lot of noise outside. A) Made. B) Were making. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were making. 24. When my friend Harry ..... off the ladder he ..... the ceiling of his room A) Fall / paint. B) Fell / was painting. C) Fell / painted. D) Falls / was painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fell / was painting. 25. I saw the thief while he ..... into my neighbor's house. A) Got. B) Get. C) Were getting. D) Was getting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was getting. 26. My teacher ..... when I interrupted the class A) Explaining. B) Were explaining. C) Explained. D) Was explaining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was explaining. 27. The scientists ..... in their laboratory when they ..... the new drug. A) Did work / were discovering. B) Were working / discovered. C) Was working / discovered. D) Worked / were discovering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were working / discovered. 28. While I ..... the dishes, my friend came home. A) Was washing. B) Washed. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was washing. 29. The children ..... tennis when their granmother ..... to visit them. A) Were play-came. B) Was playing-came. C) Were playing-come. D) Were playing-came. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were playing-came. 30. We ..... eating WHEN they ..... to play the piano. A) Was-begin. B) Were-began. C) Was-began. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were-began. 31. They (have) dinner when the power (go) out. A) They were having dinner when the power went out. B) They were having dinner when the power goes out. C) They have dinner when the power goes out. D) They had dinner when the power went out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were having dinner when the power went out. 32. Jason was studying English ..... he heard a strange noise. A) When. B) What. C) That. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When. 33. He (cook) dinner while she (study) for her exam. A) He (cooking) dinner while she (studying) for her exam. B) He (cook) dinner while she (studies) for her exam. C) He (cooks) dinner while she (studies) for her exam. D) He (cooked) dinner while she (studies) for her exam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He (cooks) dinner while she (studies) for her exam. 34. Complete: ..... was the soccer game?it was last Thursday. A) Which. B) How. C) Where. D) When. E) Why. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When. 35. Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence.When the doorbell rang ..... A) I opened the window. B) I was watching TV. C) I was taking a shower. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I was watching TV. 36. We ..... a nice film yesterday. A) See. B) Saw. C) Was seeing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saw. 37. He was cancelling his flight ..... we called him. A) WHILE. B) WHEN. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WHEN. 38. We ..... (hear) the score when we ..... (travel) in Florida. A) Were hearing/traveled. B) Heard/ traveled. C) Heard/were traveling. D) Were hearing/were traveling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heard/were traveling. 39. Complete: ..... did you go last weekend?I went to Bahamas. A) When. B) Where. C) Why. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where. 40. I ..... when you came home last night. A) Didn't sleep. B) Wasn't sleeping. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wasn't sleeping. 41. The students were fighting ..... the teacher came in. A) As soon as. B) When. C) While. D) As. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When. 42. Part participle of '' read" is ..... A) Reeb. B) Read. C) Reed. D) Reab. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Read. 43. They ..... (play) soccer last weekend. A) Played. B) Playing. C) Plays. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Played. 44. They ..... while their friend was calling his aunt. A) Swim. B) Were swimming. C) Was swimming. D) Swam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were swimming. 45. I think ..... yesterday at the supermarket. Were you wearing a red dress? A) I was seeing you. B) I see you. C) I saw you. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I saw you. 46. He loud bang while he to his friend. A) Heard / was talking. B) Was hearing / was talking. C) Was hearing / talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heard / was talking. 47. ..... he was talking on the phone, I was watching TV. A) WHEN. B) WHILE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WHILE. 48. Completa:they were waiting the bus when ..... A) The accident happened. B) The accident hapened. C) The accident happen. D) The accident happed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The accident happened. 49. It ..... (rain) very hard, so the referee ..... (decide) not to play the match. A) Rained/decided. B) Was raining/decided. C) Was raining/was deciding. D) Rained/was deciding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was raining/decided. 50. Sue ..... an old bracelet while she ..... the attic. A) Founded / cleaned. B) Finded / was cleaning. C) Found / was cleaning. D) Find / is cleaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Found / was cleaning. 51. What was he doing this time yesterday? A) He was playing soccer. B) He is playing soccer. C) He played soccer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was playing soccer. 52. Complete the following blank spaces with the correct alternatives:The mixer ..... down when I ..... dinner. A) Was breaking / cooked. B) Broke / was cooking. C) Break / cooked. D) Were breaking / were cooking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Broke / was cooking. 53. Rachelle and Ryan ..... their homework, when their father called them A) Were doing. B) Was doing. C) Did. D) Doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were doing. 54. He (fix) his car when it (break) down. A) Was fixing, broke. B) Fixed, broke. C) Fixing, breaking. D) Was fixing, breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was fixing, broke. 55. You didn't answer when I phoned you this morning. What did you do / were you doing? A) What did you do?. B) What were you doing?. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What were you doing?. 56. Susan and Tim ..... to their first day of school at 7a.m. A) Was going. B) Were going. C) Were went. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were going. 57. You ..... in the park when you ..... her. A) Walked / were meeting. B) Walked / didn't met. C) Were walking / met. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were walking / met. 58. Who did you meet ..... you arrived to the party? A) WHILE. B) WHEN. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WHEN. 59. While we ..... with my umbrella, we ..... a coin A) Were walking-find. B) Were walk-found. C) Was walking-found. D) Were walking-found. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were walking-found. 60. I wasn't driving A) Past simple. B) Past progressive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past progressive. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 1Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 3Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 4Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 5Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 6Form And Use The Past Progressive Verb Tense QuizPast, Present, Future Perfect Tense QuizPast And Past Perfect Tense Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books