This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Simple Vs Past Progressive – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the past of the verb "Think" (pensar)? A) Thinkked. B) Thinked. C) Though. D) Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thought. 2. While I ..... (listen) to music, I ..... (hear) the door! A) Was listening, heard. B) Listened, was hearing. C) Were listening, heard. D) Listening, were hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was listening, heard. 3. When they ..... the museum, the sun ..... A) Were leaving / left. B) Was leaving/ was leaving. C) Were leaving/ were leaving. D) Left/ was shining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Left/ was shining. 4. Jim ..... (wait) at one airport while Max ..... (wait) at the other. What a disaster! A) Was waiting/was waiting. B) Was waiting/waited. C) Waited/was waiting. D) Waited/waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was waiting/was waiting. 5. He ..... (not go) to the party last Friday. A) Didn't go. B) Hadn't gone. C) Has not gone. D) Was not going. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Didn't go. 6. I ..... (call) her, but she didn't answer. A) Call. B) Calling. C) Calls. D) Called. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Called. 7. ..... 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. I (work) on my project when the computer (crash). A) Will work, crashed. B) Was working, crashed. C) Worked, crashing. D) Is working, crashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was working, crashed. 12. Last night I ..... in the bed when I suddenly ..... a scream. A) Was reading, heard. B) Read, heard. C) Was reading, was hearing. D) Read, was hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was reading, heard. 13. Which question is the correct? A) Where they staying?. B) What you were doing?. C) Where was she living?. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where was she living?. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. I saw the thief while he ..... into my neighbor's house. A) Got. B) Was getting. C) Get. D) Were getting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was getting. 17. My teacher ..... when I interrupted the class A) Explained. B) Explaining. C) Was explaining. D) Were explaining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was explaining. 18. The scientists ..... in their laboratory when they ..... the new drug. A) Worked / were discovering. B) Were working / discovered. C) Was working / discovered. D) Did work / were discovering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were working / discovered. 19. 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. 20. The children ..... tennis when their granmother ..... to visit them. A) Were playing-come. B) Were playing-came. C) Was playing-came. D) Were play-came. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were playing-came. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. Jason was studying English ..... he heard a strange noise. A) After. B) When. C) What. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When. 24. He (cook) dinner while she (study) for her exam. A) He (cooked) dinner while she (studies) 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 (cooking) dinner while she (studying) for her exam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He (cooks) dinner while she (studies) for her exam. 25. Complete: ..... was the soccer game?it was last Thursday. A) Which. B) Where. C) When. D) How. E) Why. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 1Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 2Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 3Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 5Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 6Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 7Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 8Past Simple Vs Past Progressive Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books