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PART I. Past progressive vs. past perfect

Direction : Circle the correct completion!
1. Amanda didn’t need to study the multiplication tables in fifth grade. She____________
them.
A. Was learning B. had already learned

2. I enjoyed visiting Tommy’s class. It was an arithmetic class. The students ___________
their multiplication tables.
A. Were learning B. had already learned

3. While I ____________ up the mountain, I got tired. But I didn’t stop until I reached the
top.
A. Was walking B. had walked

4. I was very tired when I got to the top of the mountain. I ____________ a long distance.
A. Was walking B. had walked

5. I knocked. No one answered. I turned the handle and pulled sharply on the door, but it
did not open. Someone _____________ it.
A. Was locking B. had locked

6. “ Where were you when the earthquake occurred?”

“In my office. I _____________ to my assistant. We were working on a report.”
A. Was talking B. had already talked

7. “Ahmed’s house was destroyed in the earthquake.”

“I know! It’s lucky that he and his family _______________ for his parents’ home before
the earthquake struck.”
A. Were leaving B. had already talked

8. We drove two hundred miles to see the circus in Kansas City. When we got there, we
couldn’t find the circus. It ______________ town. (9) We __________ all the way to
Kansas City for nothing.
A. Was leaving…..were driving C. was leaving…..had driven
B. Had left…..had driven D. had left…..were driving
 9. When I went to bed, I turned on the radio. While I ____________, somebody turned it
off .
A. Was sleeping B. had slept

10. Last Thursday, we went to the station to catch a train to Athens, but we were too late.
The train ______________.
A. Was leaving B. had already left

PART II. Complete the sentence with the simple past, past perfect, past future, or past
progressive form of the verb in parentheses !

Once upon a time, there (1)(live) __________ a kind young prince named Jonathan. He
was loved and adored by his people. His two close friends were Peter Piper, the servant of the
palace and Franklin Greedy, the son of an Aristocrat.

One day, they (2)(walk) ____________ through the forest. Suddenly a group of bandits
(3)(attack) ____________ the three boys near an old house. They (4)(enter)___________ the
old house and (5)(blockade) ____________ the gate and doors. The three boys were trapped 
inside the house.

Franklin (6)(be)___________ very terrified and asked the Prince to surrender

immediately, but Peter wasn’t afraid. He (7)(urge)____________ and supported the Prince not
to give up. The Prince (8)(decide) ____________not to surrender because he (9)(realize)
__________ that he (10)(will) ______________become a hostage for the bandits to ask for
ransom to his father, but Franklin  was scared and wanted to make a deal, it made Peter
suspicious about Franklin’s behavior. So he quietly made up a plan for him and the Prince to
escape.

GOOD LUCK