Right form of verb

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context.
Question-1
clue: be, leave, try, to have, know,  join,  learn, start,  repay.

 Robin and Hafiz (a)......... good friends. Robin (b)....... for Dhaka. There he (c)....... hard, but could not find a suitable job. So he (d)........... to come back to his village. Hafiz (e).................. not highly educated. He (f).......... that he could not find a good job. So he (g)....... a youth training course. There he (h)......... how to be self-employed. He took a bank loan of Tk. 1,00,000 and (i)........ a dairy farm. Now he has three cows and five claves. His average monthly income is Tk. 8,000. His bank loan (j)..... soon.

Answer-1 : (a) were (b) left (c) tried (d) had (e) was (f) knew (g) joined (h) learnt (i) started (j) will be repaid.

Question-2
clue:be, love, have, make, fight, drive, go, sit, defeat, try.
Long, long ago there (a)......... a king in Scotland. His name was Robert Bruce. He was a very good king. He (b)........... his country and his subjects very dearly. His subjects also (c).........a great love and respect for him. Once his enemies (d)........... a plan against him. They (e)........... against him and (f)........ him away. The king (g)......... to a forest and took shelter in an old fort. Many of his faithful subjects joined him there. The king (h).........idly there. He formed a troop. He attacked his enemies again and again. But every time he (i).......... . He had no hope of getting back his kingdom. One day the king was lying in the floor and saw a spider (j)..............to reach the roof and succeeded on the eighth attempt.

Answer-2 : (a) was (b) loved (c) had (d) made (e) fought (f) drove (g) went (h) did not sit (i) was defeated (j) trying