This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Continuous Tense – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Continuous Tense Quiz 43 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We ..... television when the power went off. A) Were watching. B) Watching. C) Was watching. D) Watched. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were watching. 2. While the girl ..... (read) a book, the chair ..... (break). A) Reading/ broken. B) Was reading/ broken. C) Read/ was breaking. D) Read/ broke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was reading/ broken. 3. She ..... an elephant while she was walking to the bank. A) Saw. B) Is seeing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saw. 4. ..... I was doing the gardening, the telephone rang. A) While. B) When. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) While. 5. While the old man ..... looking for a long stick, the mousedeer escaped. A) Was. B) Were. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 6. The lion ( is hunting, was hunting ) for its prey just now. A) Is hunting. B) Was hunting. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was hunting. 7. She ..... singing now A) Am. B) Is. C) Are. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is. 8. What/ doing/ were/ yesterday/?/ you A) What were you doing yesterday?. B) What you were doing yesterday?. C) What you doing yesterday?. D) What was you doing yesterday?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What were you doing yesterday?. 9. Susan ..... playing volleyball. A) Was. B) Were. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 10. While we ..... TV, the lights went off. A) Were watching. B) Watched. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were watching. 11. If your friend asks, 'Were you listening to the teacher?', what is the correct positive short answer? A) Yes, I were. B) Yes, I was listening. C) Yes, I was. D) Yes, I did. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes, I was. 12. ..... Justin ..... songs on his concert at this time last year? A) Was, singing. B) Were, singing. C) Are, singing. D) Did, sing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was, singing. 13. One of the ladies ..... television when the accident happened. A) Was watching. B) Is watching. C) Were watching. D) Are watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was watching. 14. She ..... catching the ball. A) Is. B) Was. C) Were. D) Am. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was. 15. Lina ..... (read) at 3 o'clock. A) Reading. B) Were reading. C) Was reading. D) Is read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was reading. 16. James ..... medicine for years when he realized he didn't wan to be a doctor. A) Was studying. B) Studied. C) Has studied. D) Had been studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been studying. 17. Past continuous tense can be used to ..... A) Describes event that already happened in the past. B) Describes ongoing event that was happening at some points in the past. C) Talk about action that were completed before some points in the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Describes ongoing event that was happening at some points in the past. 18. Read the sentence:'She were trying to fix the computer, but it wasn't work.' Which revision corrects the errors? A) She was trying to fix the computer, but it wasn't working. B) She were trying to fix the computer, but it wasn't working. C) She was trying to fix the computer, but it didn't working. D) She was trying to fix the computer, but it wasn't work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was trying to fix the computer, but it wasn't working. 19. We ..... yesterday. A) Was playing video games. B) Were palying video games. C) Was play video games. D) Were play video games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were palying video games. 20. She ..... looking for information about endangered animals on the Internet for her science project. A) Is. B) Am. C) Was. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 21. Which sentence correctly shows the basic structure of the past continuous tense? A) She was listening to a podcast. B) They was playing soccer. C) He were reading a comic book. D) I writing an email. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was listening to a podcast. 22. What is the correct past continuous form of 'get' for 'I'? A) I gets. B) I was getting. C) I were getting. D) I am getting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I was getting. 23. Which sentence is correct for 'the dogs (chase) the cat'? A) The dogs were chasing the cat. B) The dogs was chasing the cat. C) The dogs are chasing the cat. D) The dogs chases the cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dogs were chasing the cat. 24. She was ..... when I ..... to her house last night. A) Crying, came. B) Cried, coming. C) Cries, coming. D) Crying, come. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crying, came. 25. $^{Choose the correct form of the verb in }$$^{"Past Continuous Tense" .}$$^{}$I ..... (start) from home when the meeting finished. A) Is starting. B) Started. C) Was starting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was starting. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Continuous Tense Quiz 1Past Continuous Tense Quiz 2Past Continuous Tense Quiz 3Past Continuous Tense Quiz 4Past Continuous Tense Quiz 5Past Continuous Tense Quiz 6Past Continuous Tense Quiz 7Past Continuous Tense Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books