Question 5
Read the excerpt given below and fill in the blanks with those forms of the verbs which best fit the passage from the options provided. Your chosen answer should maintain the tense consistency of the excerpt.
It is hard to forget repulsive things. I remember yet how I ran off from school once when I was a boy, and then, pretty late at night, concluded to climb into the window of my father’s office and (i)____ on a lounge, because I had a delicacy about going home and getting thrashed. As I (ii)____ on the lounge and my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I fancied I could see a long, dusky, shapeless thing stretched upon the floor. A cold shiver went through me. I (iii)____ my face to the wall. That did not answer. I was afraid that the thing would creep over and seize me in the dark. I turned back and stared at it for minutes and minutes—they seemed hours. It (iv)____ to me that the lagging moonlight never, never would get to it. I turned to the wall and counted twenty, to pass the feverish time away. I looked—the pale square was nearer. I (v)____ again and counted fifty—it was almost touching it. With desperate will I turned again and counted one hundred, and faced about, all in a tremble.
Source: Moments with Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Find the appropriate verb form to fill the blank (v):
Had turned
Turned
Turn
Would turn