French language Q&A Forum

I am finding these extremely difficult, for some reason, despite doing a lot of wotk on ce que / que etc. It would be helpful if you could find some way of explaining why the wrong answers are wrong.

According to the notes, Jacques a descendu ... could mean he climbed down off the giant. I picked this answer, too, and it was wrong. Why? Thanks for your help. 

The first 2 answers in the multiple choice list are the same so I chose both and got one wrong.  What happened?

It was marked incorrect, but doesn’t it fit the sentence better? It said that it should have been “Pendant qu’il va se préparer avec toi....”. 

Thanks!

Do these sentences only use être because they are using DRMRSVANDERTRAMP verbs?

En 1977