This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Tense – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Tense Quiz 8 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fill in the blanks with the Past Perfect form of the verb in brackets:They ..... (put) out the fire when they reached the airport. A) Has put. B) Have put. C) Had putted. D) Had put. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had put. 2. Mr Lewis was really angry because he ..... at the hospital for over 2 hours A) Was waiting. B) Had been waiting. C) Has been waiting. D) Waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 3. Tina ..... (know) the story before Erick told her. A) Had know. B) Have know. C) Has know. D) Had known. E) Have been known. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had known. 4. They ..... (already/eat) dinner when we ..... (arrive) at the restaurant. A) A) already ate, had arrived. B) B) had already eaten, arrived. C) C) eat, arrived. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B) had already eaten, arrived. 5. She ..... (not/visit) that museum before last weekend. A) Was not visited. B) Did not visited. C) Had not visited. D) Has not visited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had not visited. 6. Which sentence best combines these two ideas to show a clear sequence? First:The team practiced hard. Second:They won the championship. A) The team won the championship after they practiced hard. B) The team had practiced hard before they won the championship. C) The team practiced hard before they had won the championship. D) The team had practiced hard and they had won the championship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The team had practiced hard before they won the championship. 7. By the time we reached the cinema, the movie ..... A) Had started. B) Has started. C) Was starting. D) Starts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had started. 8. He didn't recognize her because she ..... (change) so much. A) Had changed. B) Changed. C) Was changing. D) Has changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had changed. 9. We ..... together when you arrived. A) Study. B) Studied. C) Had studied. D) Studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had studied. 10. The producers made a big profit as the price of cocoa ..... A) Gone up. B) Have gone up. C) Have been gone up. D) Had been gone up. E) Had gone up. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Had gone up. 11. True or False:The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that happened *after* another event in the past. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Before he was 17, he (compose) ..... several operas. A) Had composed. B) Composed. C) Composing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had composed. 13. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence in past perfect tense! If you had ..... to me, you would have got the job. A) Listened. B) Listens. C) Listen. D) Listening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Listened. 14. We were not able to get a hotel room because we had not ..... in advance. A) Booked. B) Will book. C) Is booking. D) Was booking. E) Were booking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Booked. 15. She ..... the truth by the time her teacher ..... her. A) Realized-told. B) Realized-had told. C) Had realized-told. D) Had realized-had told. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had realized-told. 16. Julie and Anne (not/meet) before the party. A) Hadn't met. B) Hadn't meet. C) Had not met. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't met. 17. We ate cherries from the tree that my grandfather ..... (plant) many years before. A) Had planted. B) Have planted. C) Has planted. D) Haven't planted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had planted. 18. True or False:To make a question in the past perfect tense, you put the word 'had' before the subject, like in 'Had you seen that movie?' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The plane had ..... by the time I got to the airport. A) Leave. B) Leaves. C) Left. D) Leaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Left. 20. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence in past perfect tense!The garden was dead because it had ..... dry all summer. A) Been. B) Was. C) Are. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Been. 21. True or False:The question 'Had the game already started when you arrived?' correctly uses the past perfect to ask if one past event happened before another. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that happened 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. 23. If I ..... my assignment, I would have traveled to Lombok with my friends. A) Has finished. B) Had finish. C) Had finished. D) Has finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had finished. 24. I had live here before you ..... to Semarang. A) Move. B) Moves. C) Moved. D) Moving. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moved. 25. When do we use past perfect? A) Something started in the past and has continued until now. B) Completed actions. C) Event that happened before another event. D) Something which was happening at a special time in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Event that happened before another event. 26. When I ..... (look) at the clock, I realized I ..... (miss) the bus. A) A) looked, had missed. B) B) had looked, missed. C) C) was looking, had missed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A) looked, had missed. 27. The building ..... on fire before the fire brigade came. A) Had been. B) Was. C) Is. D) Has been. E) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been. 28. True or False:In the sentence 'She left after she had said goodbye, ' the action of saying goodbye happened before she left. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. When I came back from school, my mother (tidy) my room. A) Tidying. B) Had tidied. C) Has tidied. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had tidied. 30. Alice said that she ..... (eat) her breakfast. A) Eaten. B) Have eaten. C) Had eaten. D) Has eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had eaten. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books