Past Simple or Past Continuous?

Insert the correct form of the verb in brackets:

1) From five to six I ______________ (cook) dinner.
2) Jane_____________ (walk) home when somebody ________ (call) her name.
3) He couldn’t believe in what he ______________ (see).
4) She _____________ (drive) her car when she ____________ (see) her friend crossing the road.
5) Michael_____________ (do) his homework when his mother __________ (come) home.
6) When I ___________ (get) up yesterday, it _______________ (rain) and the wind _________________ (blow).
7) Ann_____________ (get) up early, ____________ (take) a shower, and ______________ (do) his morning exercises.
He ____________ (tell) me that he _______________ (work) at his diploma.
9) I ______________ (study) English when you ____________ (call) yesterday.
10) We _________________ (talk) about our last holidays when the boss _____________ (come) into the office and __________ (get) angry.
11) What _________________ (you, do) last evening at 8:45?
12) When we ______________ (arrive), she _____________ (make) some coffee.
13) Simon _________________ (play) on the computer while his brother _________________ (watch) TV.

Keys:
1) was cooking
2) was walking, called
3) was seeing
4) was driving, saw
5) was doing, came
6) got, was raining, was blowing
7) got, took, did
told, was working
9) was studying, called
10) were talking, came, got
11) were you doing
12) arrived, made
13) was playing, was watching