This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Speech > Direct And Indirect Speech – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Direct And Indirect Speech Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Yuri asked, "Has Feiyin arrived?" A) Yuri asked if had Feiyin arrived. B) Yuri asked if Feiyin arrived. C) Yuri asked if Feiyin has arrived. D) Yuri asked if Feiyin had arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yuri asked if Feiyin had arrived. 2. Choose if the sentence is in Direct or Indirect Speech. "I am watching TV, " she said. A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 3. Three days ago a friend told me that she was going to visit me ..... but she didn't arrive. A) Tomorrow. B) Next day. C) The day before. D) The next day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The next day. 4. The traveler asked me to book him a seat in a non-smoker. A) "Please book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. B) "Will he book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. C) "Book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. D) "Please ask her to book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Please book me a seat in a non-smoker, " said the traveler. 5. What is the type of this statement; He said to me, "please help me" . A) Indirect Speech for Interrogative. B) Indirect Speech of Imperative Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect Speech for Interrogative. 6. I said to him, "I do not believe you." A) I said to him that I do not believe you. B) I told him that I do not believe you. C) I told him that I did not believe him . D) I said to him that I did not believe you. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I told him that I did not believe him . 7. "Think well before you answer, " the detective warned her. A) The detective warned her to have thought before she answered. B) The detective warned her thought well before she answered. C) The detective warned her think well before she answered. D) The detective warned her to think well before she answered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The detective warned her to think well before she answered. 8. The man asked, "What is your name?" A) The man asked what you name was. B) The man asked what my name was. C) The man asked what my name were. D) The man asked what was my name. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The man asked what my name was. 9. Change this sentence to Indirect speech.The little girl said, "I am lost." A) The little girl is lost. B) The little girl said that she was lost. C) The little girl said that she is lost. D) The little girl was lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The little girl said that she was lost. 10. Identify the speech;She said, "I am going to the market" A) Direct Speech. B) Indirect Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech. 11. They say that they are having their meal now. A) "We are having our meal now, " they said. B) "We were having our meal then, " they said. C) "We were having our meal then, " they say. D) "We are having our meal now, " they say. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "We are having our meal now, " they say. 12. She said to the shopkeeper, "How much is the price of this book?" A) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. B) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book is. C) She told to the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She asked the shopkeeper how much the price of the book was. 13. Which one shows the correct punctation? A) "Where are you going" asked Abdul Kazam?. B) "Where are you going?" asked Abdul Kazam. C) "Where are you going" ? asked Abdul Kazam. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Where are you going?" asked Abdul Kazam. 14. The farmer said, "The goat died in the night." A) The farmer said that the goat had died in the night. B) The farmer said the goat died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The farmer said that the goat had died in the night. 15. She told her parents that she ..... in the reading room at that moment. A) Is working. B) Has been working. C) Will be working. D) Was working. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was working. 16. Max asked me, "How must does this pen cost?" A) He asked me how much did that pen cost. B) He asked me how much did that pen costed. C) He asked me how much that pen cost. D) He asked me how much that pen costed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He asked me how much that pen cost. 17. Direct to Indirect Speech:Jullie said to me, "I have to win this game." A) Jullie told me that she must win this game. B) Jullie told me that she had to win that game. C) Jullie told me that she had to win this game. D) Jullie told me that she must win that game. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jullie told me that she had to win that game. 18. How Direct Speech is delivered: A) Reporting what was said exactly in the words of the speaker. B) Reporting what was said in the narrator's words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reporting what was said exactly in the words of the speaker. 19. Convert( assertive) direct to indirect speech-Vineetha said, '' The information is being downloaded from the internet." A) Vineetha informed that the information was being downloaded from the internet. B) Vineetha exclaimed sorrowfully that the information was being downloaded from the internet. C) Vineetha informed the information was being downloaded from the internet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vineetha informed that the information was being downloaded from the internet. 20. We use inverted comas in A) Direct speech. B) Indirect speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct speech. 21. 'I had lived in four countries by the age of ten.' $\rightarrow$ She said that she ..... in four countries by the age of ten. A) Had lived. B) Had been living. C) Will have lived. D) Lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had lived. 22. Alice asked me how long I ..... A) Had been waiting. B) Was waiting. C) Am waiting. D) Have been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 23. My friend said to me, "Has your father returned from Calcutta?" A) My friend said to me that my father has returned from Calcutta. B) My friend asked me if my father had returned from Calcutta. C) My friend told me that his father had returned from Calcutta. D) My friend enquired me if his father had returned from Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My friend asked me if my father had returned from Calcutta. 24. "I saw a great movie yesterday, " she said with excitement. A) She said with excitement she saw a great movie yesterday. B) She said with excitement she had seen a great movie the day before. C) She said with excitement she saw a great movie the day before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She said with excitement she had seen a great movie the day before. 25. Do you have to use 'that' with all reported speech sentences? A) Yes. B) No. C) No, only with statements. D) No, only with requests. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 26. Convert into indirect speechShe said to me, "I have a beautiful watch" A) She told me that I had a beautiful watch. B) She told me that she has a beautiful watch. C) She told me that she had a beautiful watch. D) She told me that she had the beautiful watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She told me that she had a beautiful watch. 27. Choose the correct form of the verb in Indirect Speech.Direct:He said, "Jill went to the clinic yesterday."Indirect:He said that Jill ..... to the clinic the day before. A) Have gone. B) Had gone. C) Has gone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had gone. 28. John said, "I am very busy now." A) John said that he was very busy then. B) John said that he is very busy now. C) John said that he was very busy now. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John said that he was very busy then. 29. Joe said I had always been his friend. A) "You were always my friend, " said Joe. B) "You had always been my friend, " said Joe. C) "You are always my friend, " said Joe. D) "You have always been my friend, " said Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "You have always been my friend, " said Joe. 30. Example:Rita said, "Your painting is really nice." Which of the following is a correct reported speech? A) Rita said that his painting was really nice. B) Rita said that your painting is really nice. C) Rita said that my painting is really nice. D) None of these. 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