This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Simple Past Tense – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Simple Past Tense Quiz 37 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read each sentence below. Choose the sentence in the simple past tense form. A) Mary bakes a cake with her sister. B) Uncle Sam cleaned his car this morning. C) I am reading a book now. D) George plays football in the field every evening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uncle Sam cleaned his car this morning. 2. "Oh! You ..... the kitchen last night. I like the new colour." A) Painted. B) Paint. C) Were painting. D) Paints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Painted. 3. We ..... late to school this morning. A) Were. B) Was. C) Are. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 4. Complete the sentence with the correct verb in the past simple.She ..... (be) very annoying last night at the movies. she talked through the whole movie! A) Is. B) Are. C) Was. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 5. Tata:Did you go to the swimming pool yesterday? Wari: ..... A) Yes, I did. B) Yes, I do. C) No, I doesn't. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, I did. 6. To express an event/activity that has already happened we can use..... A) Simple Past Tense. B) Simple Present Tense. C) Present Continuous Tense. D) Simple Future Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple Past Tense. 7. James ..... milk. A) Did not drank. B) Do not drank. C) Did not drink. D) Do not drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Did not drink. 8. Choose the past form of "sing" A) Sang. B) Sung. C) Sanged. D) Singed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sang. 9. Owen ..... to the mall a week ago. A) Go. B) Went. C) Goed. D) Going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Went. 10. (A) the students playing truant on that day? A) Was. B) Are. C) Were. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were. 11. She (lose) ..... her way home. A) Lost. B) Losing. C) Loses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lost. 12. I ..... a wonderful and delicious lunch last Friday afternoon. A) Had. B) Am having. C) Have. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 13. Choose the correct pair of verb with it past form. A) Drink-drank. B) Take-taking. C) Go-goes. D) Work-works. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drink-drank. 14. THE AUXILIARY WHICH IS USED FOR THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES CONSTRUCTED WITH ANY VERB EXCEPT TO BE OR TO BE IS ..... A) DO. B) DID. C) WILL. D) DOES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DID. 15. What is the to 'be form' in the past? A) Was/were. B) Is/were. C) Is/are. D) Am/are. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was/were. 16. I ..... with my sister last week A) Studies. B) Studying. C) Study. D) Studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Studied. 17. Mix (past tense) A) Mixed. B) Mixxed. C) Mixed. D) Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed. 18. Choose the past form of "sit" A) Sitted. B) Sat. C) Sited. D) Sit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sat. 19. Mr. Wang ..... rice porridge yesterday. A) Cooks. B) Cookd. C) Cooked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooked. 20. Sally (draw) ..... a heart on the beach sand last week. A) Draw. B) Drawing. C) Drew. D) Draws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drew. 21. Tia:Where did you go yesterday, Rani? Rani:I ..... to Bandung with my mother. Tia:How did you go there? Rani:By bus A) Went. B) Have gone. C) Go. D) Am going. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Went. 22. Choose the time that shows it happened in the past. A) Every day. B) Last night. C) Tonight. D) Always. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Last night. 23. "Mom had fed all five of us early. "Which word is in simple past tense? A) 'had'. B) 'fed'. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) None of the above. 24. Then, we ..... (eat) lunch at a cafe. A) Ate. B) Eats. C) Eat. D) Eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ate. 25. Choose the correct negative form of simple past tense. A) Abby does not do her homework. B) Viyay and Nanny do not go to the school. C) I did not get first place in the singing competition. D) She does not meet her friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I did not get first place in the singing competition. 26. Yesterday morning, I ..... waffles for breakfast. Yummy! A) Eat. B) Ate. C) Will eat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ate. 27. Make this verb PAST TENSE.wish A) Wishd. B) Wisheed. C) Wished. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wished. 28. Which of the below sentences is simple past tense in passive voice? A) When I was five, I was being teased by my older brother. B) When I was five, my older brother teased me. C) When I was five, I had been teased by my older brother. D) When I was five, I was teased by my older brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When I was five, I was teased by my older brother. 29. ..... you ..... pasta last month? A) Did-eat. B) Do-eat. C) Does-eat. D) Does-ate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did-eat. 30. Jason ..... to school every morning. A) Walking. B) Walk. C) Walks. D) Walked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walks. 31. What describes the simple past tense? A) Something that is going down. B) Something that is happening now. C) Something that happened in the past. D) Something that will happen next year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something that happened in the past. 32. Jane ..... a new pair of jeans yesterday. A) Buyed. B) Bought. C) Boght. D) Buy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bought. 33. Irdina ..... to Anesa last night. A) Talking. B) Talks. C) Talk. D) Talked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talked. 34. Choose the correct form of the verb in the simple past tense to complete the sentence.She ..... down to her room. A) Hurried. B) Hurry. C) Huried. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hurried. 35. What is the PAST SIMPLE of the verb "have" ? A) Haved. B) Hid. C) Had. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had. 36. Give the simple past of the verb 'seek'. A) Seeked. B) Seen. C) Sought. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sought. 37. Gordon ..... pictures of the beautiful scenery in Paris last year. A) Taked. B) Took. C) Takes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Took. 38. What is the past form of "feel ''? A) Feeling. B) Felt. C) Feeled. D) Felted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Felt. 39. The irregular verb TRANSFORMS, so ..... A) We add ed/ied at the end of the verb. B) The verb changes. C) Birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The verb changes. 40. Positive:The students were online two weeks ago. Choose the Negative: A) The students were not online two weeks ago. B) The students was not online two weeks ago. C) The students did not online two weeks ago. D) The students not online two weeks ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The students were not online two weeks ago. 41. When I phoned Peter yesterday, He ..... a tale. A) Were reading. B) Was reading. C) Read. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was reading. 42. Choose the correct word to fill in the blanks. Rohan ..... the whole afternoon yesterday. A) Sleepied. B) Sleeped. C) Slept. D) Sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slept. 43. Syasmin (A) type the computer keyboard without seeing it when she was eight years old. A) Could. B) Cannot. C) Can. D) Couldn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Could. 44. Choose the past form of "put" A) Put. B) Puted. C) Putt. D) Putted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Put. 45. We ..... (look) at all the exhibits. A) Look. B) Looks. C) Looked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Looked. 46. Q:Did you do all of your homework this afternoon? A:Yes, I ..... A) Do. B) Will do. C) Did. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Did. 47. First, we ..... (go) to the Science Museum. A) Go. B) Goes. C) Gone. D) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Went. 48. Swim $\rightarrow$ A) Swam. B) Swims. C) Swimming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swam. 49. The movie (A) not interesting and I fell asleep throughout that boring movie. A) Was. B) Are. C) Were. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 50. Choose the correct past simple verb to fill the gap in sentence.Lucy ..... her mother's watch, so she bought a new one. A) Brought. B) Crashed. C) Forgot. D) Took. E) Broke. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Broke. 51. Mario and Ilham didn't ..... English for exam last night. A) Studying. B) Studied. C) Study. D) Studies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study. 52. Emma didn't ..... well last week. A) Feel. B) Feels. C) Felt. D) Feeled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feel. 53. We ..... him home because he was not feeling well yesterday. A) Send. B) Sending. C) Sends. D) Sent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sent. 54. Which of these words is the correct simple past tense form of the verb wipe? A) Wiping. B) Wiped. C) Wipped. D) Wipe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wiped. 55. (he join) the football match yesterday? A) Does he joins. B) Did he joined. C) Does he join. D) Did he join. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Did he join. 56. Make this verb PAST TENSE.study A) Studied. B) Studyed. C) Studyied. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studied. 57. Choose the correct form of the verb in the simple past tense to complete the sentence.I ..... my plans right away. A) Changed. B) Changeed. C) Changes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Changed. 58. Make the verb in ( ) past tense. Yesterday, my teacher ..... (ask) me a question. A) Asking. B) Asks. C) Asked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asked. 59. Choose the simple past tense of the word 'rip'. A) Riped. B) Reeped. C) Rip. D) Ripped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Riped. 60. What is the simple past of the verb 'bear'? A) Beared. B) Bore. C) Born. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bore. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesSimple Past Tense Quiz 1Simple Past Tense Quiz 2Simple Past Tense Quiz 3Simple Past Tense Quiz 4Simple Past Tense Quiz 5Simple Past Tense Quiz 6Simple Past Tense Quiz 7Simple Past Tense Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books