This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Speech > Direct And Indirect Speech – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Convert the following sentence into indirect speech:The teacher said to the students "Be quiet while I am talking" A) The teacher said to the students to be quiet while she was talking. B) The teacher said to the students to be quiet while I am talking. C) The teacher said to the students to be quiet while she told. D) The teacher said to the students to be quiet while she talks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher said to the students to be quiet while she was talking. 2. Robert said that he might print all the photos. What is the direct speech of this sentence? A) Robert said, "He might print all the photos.". B) Robert said, "I may have printed all the photos.". C) Robert said, "He may print all the photos.". D) Robert said, "I may print all the photos.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert said, "I may print all the photos.". 3. It is also known as quoted speech. A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. C) Persuasive Speech. D) Argumentative Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 4. Mr. Burchell asked the girl, "What is your name?" A) Mr. Burchell asked the girl what is your name. B) Mr. Burchell asked the girl what was your name. C) Mr. Burchell asked the girl what is her name. D) Mr. Burchell asked the girl what her name was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Burchell asked the girl what her name was. 5. In direct speech, how are the exact words of the speaker presented? A) Using "quotation marks". B) Using italics. C) Using punctuation!?. D) Using bold font. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using "quotation marks". 6. "What is my name?", she asked me.( Change to indirect speech) A) What is my name she asked me. B) She asked me what my name was. C) She asked me what my name is. D) What is my name she asked. . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She asked me what my name was. 7. She says, "Now I shall read this book" A) . She says that now she will read this book. B) . She says that now she would read this book. C) . She says now she will read this book. D) . She says now that she will read this book. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . She says that now she will read this book. 8. Match the verb form for direct speech to its change in the indirect/reported speech."Simple Present '' A) Past continuous. B) Simple past. C) Past perfect. D) Past perfect continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple past. 9. "Are you leaving today or tomorrow morning?" asked his secretary. A) His secretary asked if he had been leaving that day or the following morning. B) His secretary asked if he was leaving that day or the following morning. C) His secretary asked if he was leaving that day or tomorrow morning. D) His secretary asked if he is leaving that day or the following morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His secretary asked if he was leaving that day or the following morning. 10. The police told them, "Don't drive too fast in town" . A) The police told them not to drove too fast in town. B) The police told them not to drive too fast in town. C) The police told them that not to drove too fast in town. D) The police told them that not to drive too fast in town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The police told them not to drive too fast in town. 11. What kind of verb is in the quoted part of a speech? A) Introductory Verb. B) Quoted Verb. C) Helping Verb. D) Auxiliary Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quoted Verb. 12. Maria told us that she was going to visit ..... parents in Italy the next week and wouldn't come to class. A) My. B) Her. C) Your. D) Their. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her. 13. She said, "I'm going to the salon." A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 14. The police man said to the boy, "Where do you live?" A) The policeman asked the boy where he lives. B) The policeman asked the boy where he lived. C) The policeman asked the boy where did he live. D) The policeman asked the boy where did he lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The policeman asked the boy where he lived. 15. Direct speech:She said, "I will take an English class."Indirect speech: ..... A) She told that she would take an English class. B) "I will take an English class, " said Jessica. C) She told me I will take an English class. D) She tell me something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She told that she would take an English class. 16. What tense does 'may' change to in indirect speech? A) Might. B) Could. C) Should. D) Would. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Might. 17. Which of the following is a special feature of an indirect speech? A) It always denotes the exact words of the speaker. B) It always ends with an exclamation mark. C) It always has inverted commas in it. D) It always ends with a full stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It always ends with a full stop. 18. Change this sentence to direct speechChitra said that she will go to the shop today. A) Chitra said that she, "is going to the shop today" . B) Chitra said, "I will go to the shop today" . C) Chitra told that, "She will go to the shop today" . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chitra said, "I will go to the shop today" . 19. These repeats or quotes the exact words that were spoken. A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 20. When I spoke to Belen, yesterday, she said that she ..... to a party the night before. A) Went. B) Had gone. C) Was going. D) Did go. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had gone. 21. I said to them that I had not taken my book from there.(Select the appropriate direct speech of the above sentence) A) I said to them that I have not taken my book from here. B) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here.". C) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here." !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I said to them, "I have not taken my book from here.". 22. "I'll give you your money back tomorrow." . A) She promised me to give the money back the next day. B) She promised to give me back the money the next day. C) She promise that she will give me the money tomorrow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She promised me to give the money back the next day. 23. Is this sentence is the direct speech correct:Kamala said '' The cookies were delicious" . A) Yes, Correct. B) No, Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No, Wrong. 24. Turn Indirect speech to direct speech"He said that he was living in Paris." A) I am living in Paris. B) I am living in Pairs. C) I am not living in Paris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I am living in Paris. 25. Which of the following is the correction for this INCORRECT direct speech? This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life:says Prof. Lee. A) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life" :says Prof. Lee. B) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life" says Prof. Lee. C) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life, " says Prof. Lee. D) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life." says Prof. Lee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "This pandemic has tremendously changed our way of life, " says Prof. Lee. 26. "When will they meet?" He asked me when ..... A) Would they meet. B) They would meet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They would meet. 27. He said, "The horse has been fed." A) He said that the horse has been fed. B) He said he fed the horse. C) He said that the horse had been fed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He said that the horse had been fed. 28. CONVERT:Jun said, "We saw them." A) Jun said that they had seen them. B) Jun said that we saw them. C) Jun said that we had seen them. D) Jun said that they have seen them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jun said that they had seen them. 29. In indirect speech, do we change the tense of the reported speech? A) Yes. B) Only for past tense. C) Sometimes. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 30. Transform the following statement into indirect speech: "We have prepared the salad, " said the students. A) The students say that they had prepared the salad. B) The students said that they have prepared the salad. C) The students say that they had prepared the salad. D) The students said that they had prepared the salad. 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