[Grammar] What did you do when... VS What were you doing when...

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XomosX

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- What did you do when your wife told you about her love affair?
(possible answers)
I killed her,
I divorced her

VS

What were you doing when your wife told you about her love affair?
(possible answers)
I was driving home
I was at the door
I was listening to music.

Could you tell me if these sentence are correct?
 

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They will be correct sentences if you end them all with a full stop.
 

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Thank you very much for the answer.
Would someone be so kind to write additional examples in a similar way to the ones above (contrasting Simple Past vs Simple Past Continuous changing only tenses, and not the rest of sentence)
 

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We don't do the writing for you.
 
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