Past simple exercises

1-93) Complete with the past simple of the verbs in brackets.
Once upon a time there ___________ (be) a little girl who ___________ (be) loved by everyone, but most of all by her grandmother. Once she ___________ (give) her a little riding hood of red velvet, which ___________ (suit) her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she __________ (be) always called “Little Red Riding Hood.”
One day her mother __________ (ask) her to take a piece of cake and a bottle of wine to her grandmother because she __________ (be) ill and weak. Her mother _________ (tell) her to set out before it ___________ (get) hot and not to run off the path.
The grandmother ____________ (live) out in the wood and just as Little Red Riding Hood ___________ (enter) the wood, a wolf ___________ (meet) her. Red Riding Hood __________ (do) not know what an evil creature he __________ (be), and __________ (be) not at all afraid of him.
“Good day, Little Red Riding Hood.”, _________ (say) he.
“Thank you kindly, wolf.”
“Where are you going so early, Little Red Riding Hood?”
“To my grandmother’s.”
“What have you got in your basket?”
“Cake and wine. Poor grandmother is sick so I am taking her something good, to make her stronger.”
“Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?”
“In the wood.”, ____________ (reply) Little Red Riding Hood.
The wolf ____________ (think) to himself: “What a tender young creature! What a nice plump mouthful. She will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act cleverly, so as to catch both.”
So he ___________ (walk) for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he _________ (say): “See, Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here. Why do you not look round?”
Little Red Riding Hood __________ (raise) her eyes, and when she _________ (see) the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she __________ (think): “Suppose I take grandmother a