This document contains a simple past tense exam with 5 multiple choice questions testing use of simple past verbs like "burn", "spill", "shine", "spit", and "shrink". It also includes short answer questions asking the test taker to write a sentence describing a picture in the past tense and questions about what they did yesterday and ate during their last birthday.

1. Simple Past Tense exam
Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________
1) Mark the correct alternative (s) for each statement:
I. - My house _________ yesterday.
A) burn
B) burned
C) burnt
D) burns
E) B and C
F) all the alternatives.
G) None
II. - Harry ______________ milk on the floor.
A) spill / spilt
B) spills / spilled
C) spilled / spilt
D) A and B
E) B and C
F) all the alternatives.
G) None
III.- The sun ___________ brightly.
A) shine
B) shone
C) shine / shone
D) shined / shone
E) A and B
F) all the alternatives
G) None

2. IV. – Larry _____________ on the street.
A) spit
B) spits
C) spit / spits
D) spat
E) spat / spited
F) spit / spat
G) None
V. - My sweater ___________ when I washed it.
A) shrinks
B) shrink
C) shrank
D) shrunk
E) C and B
F) all the alternatives
G) None
2) Write a sentence about the picture below (using past tense):
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3) What did you do yesterday?
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4) What did you eat in your last birthday?
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