Past Tense Quiz: MCQ Practice for Simple, Continuous, Perfect, and Perfect Continuous Tenses

Question 1:  Identify the correct form of the past tense in the following sentence: 'I (walk) to the store yesterday.'

(A) walked

(B) walking

(C) walks

(D) walk

Question 2:  Choose the correct option to complete the sentence: 'She (play) the piano for two hours when I arrived.'

(A) played

(B) plays

(C) was playing

(D) had played

Question 3:  Identify the past perfect tense in this sentence: 'By the time we got there the movie (start).'

(A) starts

(B) started

(C) had started

(D) was starting

Question 4:  Complete the sentence correctly: 'I (finish) my homework before dinner.'

(A) finished

(B) finishes

(C) was finishing

(D) has finished

Question 5:  Choose the correct answer: 'They (not go) to the concert last night.'

(A) do not go

(B) did not go

(C) had not gone

(D) were not going

Question 6:  Identify the correct option: 'While I (read) the book the lights went out.'

(A) read

(B) was reading

(C) had read

(D) reads

Question 7:  Fill in the blank: 'By the time she arrived he (leave).'

(A) leaves

(B) had left

(C) left

(D) was leaving

Question 8:  Choose the correct past tense form: 'He (write) three books before he turned thirty.'

(A) writes

(B) wrote

(C) had written

(D) was writing

Question 9:  Identify the correct sentence structure: 'We (see) that movie last week.'

(A) see

(B) saw

(C) are seeing

(D) was seeing

Question 10:  Complete the sentence: 'They (not finish) the project before the deadline.'

(A) do not finish

(B) did not finish

(C) had not finished

(D) were not finishing