Question 1

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. In contrast, white egrets ____ motionless in the tall grass near the water.

Accepted Answer

A)  standed 
B)  stood

Question 2

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. People ____ going early here, too.

Accepted Answer

A)  got 
B)  getted

Question 3

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. It ____ only 6 a.m.

Accepted Answer

A)  was 
B)  be

Question 4

In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. Toni Morrison ____the first African American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

Accepted Answer

A)  are 
B)  was 
C)  were

Question 5

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. When the media first reported Lyuba's discovery, many people questioned whether cloning the mammoth would be the next step and be concerned about the consequences of resurrecting an extinct species that would have no natural environment and might harbor unknown diseases.

Accepted Answer

A)  reported 
B)  questioned 
C)  be

Question 6

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Several folks ____ their eggs and ____ their coffee in the waterfront coffee shop.

Accepted Answer

A)  ate, drank 
B)  eated, drinked

Question 7

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Wings outstretched, they ____ beautiful patterns in the sky.

Accepted Answer

A)  made 
B)  maked

Question 8

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Zoological scientists traveled to Siberia and tooked the discovery to the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute where experts carefully preserved the mammoth in a special refrigerator.

Accepted Answer

A)  traveled 
B)  tooked 
C)  preserved

Question 9

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. As temperatures rose and falled over thousands of years, the fluctuations damaged Lyuba's cells and rendered her specimen useless for cloning.

Accepted Answer

A)  rose 
B)  falled 
C)  damaged 
D)  rendered

Question 10

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. The remarkable find thrilled scientists, who named the baby mammoth "Lyuba" after the reindeer hunter's wife and plannied a series of experiments to learn more about this extinct species from the Ice Age.

Accepted Answer

A)  thrilled 
B)  named 
C)  plannied

Question 11

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. As a morning breeze gusted inland off the bay, buzzards, terns, and gulls ____ the air currents overhead.

Accepted Answer

A)  rided 
B)  rode

Question 12

The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. The day ____ early at Flamingo in Everglades National Park.

Accepted Answer

A)  beginned 
B)  began

Exam 30: Past Tense