This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Simple Past Tense – Quiz 78 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Simple Past Tense Quiz 78 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My brother and I ..... at Brazil last month A) Were. B) Was. C) Been. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 2. Complete the sentence below with the correct Simple Past form of the verb in parenthesis.I ..... to do my best during the exam. (try) A) Try. B) Tried. C) Tryed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tried. 3. What happen with the Irregular Verbs in the Simple Past tense? A) Spelling changes partially or totally. B) Add ED at the end of the verb. C) Consonant + vowel + consonant ending. D) ED ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spelling changes partially or totally. 4. Bilqis:How did you go to Bali?Tommy:I ..... by plane A) Arrived. B) Had. C) Took. D) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Went. 5. One day, a little mouse ..... to the desert. She ..... a voice under a rock. A) Walk/ hear. B) Walked/hear. C) Walked/heard. D) Walks/hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walked/heard. 6. Fill in the blank:The past tense of 'to lie' is ..... A) Lied. B) Lay. C) Lain. D) Lying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lied. 7. The interrogative sentence for:''She baked a cake last Sunday." is ..... A) She did bake a cake last Sunday?. B) Did she baked a cake last Sunday?. C) She bake a cake last Sunday?. D) Did she bake a cake last Sunday?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Did she bake a cake last Sunday?. 8. Complete the sentence below with the correct Simple Past form of the verb in parenthesis.The movie was amazing. I ..... it very much. (enjoy) A) Enjoyyed. B) Enjoyed. C) Enjoied. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjoyed. 9. She ..... a beautiful song on the stage last night on TV. A) Sings. B) Is singing. C) Sung. D) Sang. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sang. 10. I ..... at 5 am every morning A) Get up. B) Gets up. C) Got up. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Get up. 11. The kids ..... (not sit) on the sofa. A) Wasn't sitting. B) Was sit. C) Weren't sitting. D) Were sit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weren't sitting. 12. Which of the following verbs follows the rule of adding only-d to form the past tense? A) To stop. B) To like. C) To study. D) To plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To like. 13. Dad bought a new bike for me. The negative form of the sentence above is ..... A) Dad didn't bought a new bike for me. B) Dad doesn't bought a new bike for me. C) Dad is not buy a new bike for me. D) Dad didn't buy a new bike for me. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dad didn't buy a new bike for me. 14. When I was in the zoo, I ..... some desert animals. A) See. B) Sees. C) Saw. D) Seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saw. 15. Complete the sentence/question below with the correct form of the verb (Simple Past).Alex did not ..... last weekend. A) Worked. B) Workked. C) Work. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Work. 16. Complete the sentence/question below with the correct form of the verb (Simple Past).Did Mike ..... his grandmother last night? A) Visited. B) Visitted. C) Visit. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Visit. 17. Fill in the blank:The past tense of 'to try' is ..... A) Tryed. B) Tried. C) Tries. D) Trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tried. 18. Complete the sentence below with the correct Simple Past form of the verb in parenthesis.The doctor ..... the same patients in the ward since last Saturday. (treat) A) Treatted. B) Treatd. C) Treated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Treated. 19. Complete the sentence below with the correct Simple Past form of the verb in parenthesis.The police ..... me on my way home last night. (stop) A) Stopped. B) Stoped. C) Stoppeed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stopped. 20. What is the classification of verbs in the Simple Past Tense? A) Active and Passive verbs. B) Regular and Irregular verbs. C) D or ED verbs. D) All options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regular and Irregular verbs. 21. Where did he go yesterday? A) He go to the bookstore. B) He goes to the bookstore. C) He went to the bookstore. D) He gone to the bookstore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He went to the bookstore. 22. He ..... in this sofa with my cat last night A) Sleeps. B) Slept. C) Sleep. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slept. 23. While I ..... TV, mother ..... and my sister ..... the table. A) Watched, cooked, laid. B) Was watching, was cooking, was laying. C) Had watched, had cooked, had laid. D) Was watching, had cooked, was laying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was watching, was cooking, was laying. 24. When she was at the beach, she ..... sea shells. A) Sees. B) Seeing. C) Saw. D) Seed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saw. 25. Read the following sentences and mark the ones that are correct. A) Carla always tryed to study at night. (try). B) That event occured yesterday. (occur). C) We liveed in Quito last year. (live). D) Any sentence is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any sentence is correct. 26. I ..... to call you yesterday but you ..... home. A) Tried-were. B) Tried-weren't. C) Tried-wasn't. D) Was tried-weren't. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tried-weren't. 27. What happen to the regular verbs that end in CONSONANT + VOWEL + CONSONANT? A) We just have to add ED. B) The last consonant is duplicated. C) We have to change the last consonant. D) Nothing happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The last consonant is duplicated. 28. The teacher ..... to class yesterday because she ..... seriously ill. A) Came-was. B) Didn't came-was. C) Didn't come-wasn't. D) Didn't come-was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Didn't come-was. 29. I ..... a letter for my mom today A) Wrote. B) Writes. C) Write. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Write. 30. She was absent yesterday. I didn't ..... her at school. A) See. B) Seeing. C) Saw. D) Sees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See. ← 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