Test your knowledge on grammar - English tenses (active and passive voice). After submitting yours anwers, you will see how well you have donde in the text.

1) In the year 122 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian (visit) VISITED his provinces in Britain.

2) On his visit, the Roman soldiers (tell) TOLD him that Pictish tribes from Britain´s north (attack)ATTACKED them.

3) So Hadrian (give) GAVE the order to build a protective wall across one of the narrowest parts of the country.

4) After 6 years of hard work, the Wall(finish) FINISHED in 128.

5) It (be) was 117 kilometers long and about 4 meters high.

6) The Wall (guard) WAS GUARDED by 15,000 Roman soldiers.

7) Every 8 kilometers there(be) WAS a large fort in which up to 1,000 soldiers(find) FOND shelter.

8) The soldiers(watch) WATCHED over the frontier to the north and(check) CHECKED the people who (want)WANTED to enter or leave Roman Britain.

9) In order to pass through the wall, people (must go) HAD GO to one of the small forts that(serve) SERVED as gateways.

10) Those forts (call) WERE CALED mile castles because the distance from one fort to another (be) WAS one Roman mile (about 1,500 meters).

11) Between the mile castles there(be) WERE two turrets from which the soldiers(guard) GUARDED the Wall.

12) If the Wall(attack) ATTACKED by enemies, the soldiers at the turrets(run) RAN to the nearest mile castle for help or(light) ID a fire that(can/see)COULD BE SEE by the soldiers in the mile castle.

13) In 383 Hadrian´s Wall (abandon)WAS ABANDONED.

14) Today Hadrian´s Wall(br)IS the most popular tourist attraction in northern England.

15) In 1987, it (become)BECAME a UNESCO World Heritage Site.