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Question "How would you feel if..." what tense/what do you call this type of question?

I have some situations where students are asked to use various emotions to describe how they'd feel in that situation.

For example:

You lose your credit cards.
You go to town with odd shoes on

I want the students to create and ask each other questions like:

How would you feel if you lost your credit cards?
How would you feel if you went to town with odd shoes on?

What tense is this? I'm not sure what to call that type of sentence. Present perfect? You're talking about something that would happen in the future, then use past tense words to describe it. I've been Googling like crazy with no results for a "how would you feel if" type question.

I just want to know how to explain to my students what type of question I want them to create. I can show them how to do it easily enough, I just don't know what you call it.
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