This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Simple Past Tense – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Simple Past Tense Quiz 29 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You hurt. (Choose the simple past tense) A) You hurt. B) You hurted. C) You are hurting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You hurt. 2. We didn't ..... to the movie yesterday A) Go. B) Has gone. C) Went. D) Gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go. 3. My mother ..... (roast) a chicken in the oven. A) Roasts. B) Roasted. C) Roast. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roasted. 4. Hey Michael! Can you guess what (be) ..... the weather like in Ha Noi yesterday? It was quite a day! A) Were. B) Have been. C) Are. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was. 5. She (not, understand) the question. A) She does not understand the question. B) She will not understand the question. C) She does understand the question. D) She did not understand the question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She does not understand the question. 6. She ..... piano lesson three hours ago. A) Had. B) Have. C) Has. D) Haved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 7. My favorite TV programme ..... Didi and Friends A) Were. B) Was. C) Weren't. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was. 8. ..... you go to school yesterday? A) Did. B) Do. C) Were. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did. 9. The simple past of "stand" A) Stod. B) Stood. C) Stodd. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stood. 10. Last winter, he went skiing. A) What did he do?. B) Where did he go?. C) What did he do last winter?. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What did he do last winter?. 11. Last year, Jack ..... his birthday at school with friends. A) Celebrates. B) Celebrating. C) Celebrated. D) Celebrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Celebrated. 12. When the bell ..... ( ring), I was listening to an interesting podcast. A) Rung. B) Rang. C) Ring. D) Rings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rang. 13. Existen muchos tipo de terminaciones en los verbos irregulares A) Falso. B) Verdadero. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verdadero. 14. Mother ..... to the market this morning. A) Went. B) Goes. C) Go. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Went. 15. My holiday in California last summer ..... wonderful. (be) A) Been. B) Wasn't. C) Were. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was. 16. What did they eat for dinner last night? A) Cola. B) Mineral water. C) Pasta. D) Orange juice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pasta. 17. The soldiers ..... against the communists in 1948. A) Was fighting. B) Fight. C) Fought. D) Fights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fought. 18. You lose. (Choose the simple past tense) A) You lose. B) You lost. C) You are losing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You lost. 19. I ..... Mrs. Sally at the market this morning. A) Seeing. B) See. C) Seen. D) Saw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saw. 20. Every member of the Parent-Teacher Association ..... the problems faced by the school. A) Understand. B) Understanding. C) Understands. D) Understood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understood. 21. She ..... the ball into a neighbor's garden yesterday afternoon. A) Hit. B) Hits. C) Hitting. D) Was hitting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hit. 22. Is this sentence correct?"I played video games yesterday" A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 23. For a long time people ..... that the world was flat and that people could fall off the edge. A) Thought. B) Thinks. C) Are thought. D) May think. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thought. 24. Our favorite sports ..... football and basketball A) Was. B) Were. C) Wasn't. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were. 25. On my last holiday I ..... to ski. It ..... great fun. A) Learnt / was. B) Did learn / was. C) Learnt / were. D) Learn / is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Learnt / was. 26. Snow white was so sad, and she ..... to run away from the palace. A) Tried. B) Try. C) Tries. D) Trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tried. 27. Last January I ..... Sword Lake in Ha Noi. (visit) A) To visit. B) Visited. C) Visiting. D) Has visit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visited. 28. Jenny (works) at a hotel A) Weird. B) Work. C) Word. D) Worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Worked. 29. Where did he travel last summer? A) He traveled to France last winter. B) He traveled to Spain last spring. C) He traveled to Italy last summer. D) He traveled to Germany last autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He traveled to Italy last summer. 30. Mother ..... the trash from the kitchen yesterday. A) Remofe. B) Removing. C) Remove. D) Removed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Removed. 31. At the weekend we worked in our yard. My brother ..... the fence and I ..... some flowers. A) Paints / plants. B) Was painted / was planted. C) Painted / planted. D) Paint / plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Painted / planted. 32. I bought a new game. It ..... thirty thousand rupiahs. A) Was costing. B) Cost. C) Costs. D) Costing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was costing. 33. They (not, go) to the party last weekend. A) They will not go to the party last weekend. B) They did not go to the party last weekend. C) They are not going to the party last weekend. D) They do not go to the party last weekend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They did not go to the party last weekend. 34. Fill in the blank:Yesterday, Veronica ..... pizza. A) Has. B) Had. C) Haved. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had. 35. Los verbos regulares en pasado terminan en: A) Aied. B) Id. C) Ed. D) Ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ed. 36. I go. (Choose the simple past tense) A) I go. B) I went. C) I am going. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I went. 37. Last summer we ..... camping in the woods for a week and we ..... a great time. A) Go / having. B) Was go / had. C) Went / had. D) Did go / did have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went / had. 38. We ..... very happy to see you yesterday. A) Are. B) Was. C) Did. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were. 39. I ..... (wear) a fancy dress for my sister's birthday party last night. A) Wearing. B) Wore. C) Wear. D) Wears. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wore. 40. Her phone rang while she ..... (talk) to her new boss. A) Were talking. B) Was talking. C) Was talked. D) Talked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was talking. 41. Shikin and Azreil walked to school yesterday. A) Walked. B) And. C) Yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walked. 42. Mr Lim ..... (reverse) his car into the drain outside the house just now. A) Reversed. B) Reverse. C) Reverses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reversed. 43. What is the simple past form of 'teach'? A) Teach. B) Teached. C) Taught. D) Teacheded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taught. 44. They cut. (Choose the simple past tense) A) They are cutting. B) They cutted. C) They cut. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They cut. 45. The simple past of "get" A) Got. B) Getted. C) Geted. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Got. 46. There ..... a forest here ten years ago, but now there ..... a lot of buildings. A) Were / is. B) Was / are. C) Is / are. D) Was / were. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was / are. 47. Complete the sentences. Gill:You ..... at school yesterday. Where were you?Alex:I ..... at home. I ..... a terrible stomachache. A) Was / was / had. B) Were / was / have. C) Weren't / was / had. D) Wasn't / was / had. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weren't / was / had. 48. Yesterday, she ..... (sing) a song at the party. A) Singing. B) Sing. C) Sings. D) Sang. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sang. 49. She ..... a letter to the headmaster of the school, explaining her absence. A) Write. B) Wrote. C) Is write. D) Was wrote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrote. 50. He ..... before his wife to ask for forgiveness. A) Kneel. B) Kneeling. C) Knelt. D) Kneels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knelt. 51. What you (talk) ..... to him about yesterday? A) Do you talked. B) Did you talked. C) Do you talk. D) Did you talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Did you talk. 52. Amira ..... her pet cat before she left the house. A) Feeds. B) Fed. C) Feeding. D) Feed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fed. 53. The thieves ..... the money last week. A) Stolen. B) Steal. C) Stael. D) Stole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stole. 54. That student ..... all the correct answers on the history quiz. A) Knowed. B) Knowing. C) Know. D) Knew. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knew. 55. She ..... happy because you were late. A) Was not. B) Were not. C) Has not. D) Have not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was not. 56. "Soon she had a batch of biscuits baking in the oven" Which word is in simple past tense? A) Soon. B) Had. C) Baking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had. 57. He ..... always study hard when he was a student A) Did not. B) Do not. C) Did. D) Does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did not. 58. He ..... early last night. A) Slept. B) Sleeps. C) Sleep. D) Sletp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slept. 59. The books (A) not on the table when she reached home. A) Was. B) Are. C) Were. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were. 60. I (help) ..... my Dad to wash his car last night. A) Helping. B) Help. C) Helped. D) Helps. 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