Active & Passive Voice Skill and Drill Quiz
Univ. of Phoenix: Center for Writing Excellence, Active and Passive Voice Skill-and-Drill Quiz
Note: Every time you take the quiz the questions are in a different order and some questions will be different.
1. Which of the following sentences uses the active voice?
• The hotel was left by the blackout with 250 pounds of spoiled food.
The blackout left the hotel with 250 pounds of spoiled food.
1. Which of the following sentences should be rewritten in the active voice?
• The director’s left had was left with about 75% mobility after he suffered injuries in a car accident.
A gap was left in the auditing team by the capable director when he left.
2. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: Enron might still exist had auditors been granted full access to company records by the executives.
Auditors might have saved Enron had authorities granted them full access to company records.
• Auditors might have been able to save Enron had they been granted full access to company records.
• Enron might still exist had the executives granted the auditors full access to company records.
3. Which of the following sentences uses the active voice?
• The ingredients will have to be added to the boiling water.
You will have to add the ingredients to the boiling water.
4. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: The books will be taken from the library by the movers on January 16.
The movers will take the books from the library on January 16.
• The movers are taking the books from the library on January 16.
• The movers took the books from the library on January 16.
5. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: Intellectuals were relocated by Pol Pot to the Indonesian countryside.
• Pol Pot has relocated intellectuals to the Indonesian countryside
• Pol Pot wanted to relocate intellectuals to the Indonesian countryside.
Pol Pot relocated intellectuals to the Indonesian
Note: Every time you take the quiz the questions are in a different order and some questions will be different.
1. Which of the following sentences uses the active voice?
• The hotel was left by the blackout with 250 pounds of spoiled food.
The blackout left the hotel with 250 pounds of spoiled food.
1. Which of the following sentences should be rewritten in the active voice?
• The director’s left had was left with about 75% mobility after he suffered injuries in a car accident.
A gap was left in the auditing team by the capable director when he left.
2. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: Enron might still exist had auditors been granted full access to company records by the executives.
Auditors might have saved Enron had authorities granted them full access to company records.
• Auditors might have been able to save Enron had they been granted full access to company records.
• Enron might still exist had the executives granted the auditors full access to company records.
3. Which of the following sentences uses the active voice?
• The ingredients will have to be added to the boiling water.
You will have to add the ingredients to the boiling water.
4. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: The books will be taken from the library by the movers on January 16.
The movers will take the books from the library on January 16.
• The movers are taking the books from the library on January 16.
• The movers took the books from the library on January 16.
5. Identify the correct active equivalent of this passive sentence: Intellectuals were relocated by Pol Pot to the Indonesian countryside.
• Pol Pot has relocated intellectuals to the Indonesian countryside
• Pol Pot wanted to relocate intellectuals to the Indonesian countryside.
Pol Pot relocated intellectuals to the Indonesian