Class 10 English Chapter 3 Previous Year Questions - The Midnight Visitor
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Previous Year Questions 2024
Q1: One should never judge a book by its cover. Explain with reference to Ausable and how he outwits Max with his presence of mind. (CBSE 2024)
View AnswerAns: In "The Midnight Visitor," Ausable demonstrates the saying "One should never judge a book by its cover." Despite appearing fat and unassuming, Ausable's quick thinking and clever deception outwit the cunning Max. By creating an illusion of a balcony and arranging a fake police visit, Ausable shows his true intellect, proving that appearances can be deceiving.
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Q2: Describe Max as a secret agent. (2023) View AnswerAns: Max was a secret agent and a rival and enemy of Ausable. He was slender, a little less than tall. He appeared crafty and had pointed countenance of a fox. There was nothing especially menacing about him except his pistol.
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Q3: State one likely reason the writer of The Midnight Visitor chose to characterise Ausable as short and fat. (2022-23)
View AnswerAns: The waiter of the hotel where Ausable was staying knocked at the door. Ausable had ordered some drinks when he arrived at the hotel for Fowler and himself. The waiter came with a bottle and two glasses. He was simply doing his duty of serving his customer staying in the hotel.
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Q4: How is Ausable different from other secret agents? (2020)
View AnswerAns: Ausable was different from other secret agents because he lived in a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel which was on the sixth and top floor. There was nothing thrilling or adventurous about it. On the top of that, he was extremely fat. Though he had been living in Paris for more than twenty years. He spoke French and German only passably with an American accent.
Q5: Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. "I'm going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it," he said grimly. "This is the second time in a month that somebody has got into my room through that nuisance of a balcony!” (2020)
(a) Who is Ausable?
(i) A secret agent
(ii) A tourist in a hotel
(iii) A reporter
(iv) A businessman
View AnswerAns: (i)
Ausable is described as a secret agent dealing with espionage and danger.
(b) Why was Ausable angry with the management?
(i) His room was unsafe.
(ii) The food was not good.
(iii) The balcony was a nuisance.
(iv) The armchair was not soft.
View AnswerAns: (i)
Ausable is upset because someone has accessed his room through the balcony, compromising his safety.
(c) Was there a balcony with the room? Yes/No.
View AnswerAns: Yes
Ausable mentions the balcony as the entry point, though it was part of his fabricated story.
(d) Ausable was playing a _______ on his visitor.
View AnswerAns: trick
Ausable uses the story of the balcony to deceive his visitor, Max.
Q6: Max bit his lip nervously. The knocking was repeated. "What will you do now, Max?" Ausable asked. “If I do not answer the door, they will enter anyway. The door is unlocked. And they will not hesitate to shoot." (2020)
(a) Who is Max?
(i) a spy
(ii) a tourist
(iii) a businessman
(iv) a waiter
View AnswerAns: (i)
Max is a spy and Ausable’s adversary.
(b) Max became nervous because:
(i) he got scared of Ausable.
(ii) he thought the police had come.
(iii) the door was unlocked.
(iv) Ausable did not get up to open the door.
View AnswerAns: (ii)
Ausable tricked Max into believing the police were at the door.
(c) Actually the door was knocked at by the _______.
View AnswerAns: waiter
It was the waiter knocking, not the police, as Ausable had implied.
(d) Which word in the extract is opposite in meaning to the word ‘confidently’? (2020)
View AnswerAns: nervously
"Nervously" is the antonym of "confidently."
Q7: Ausable was, for one thing, fat. Very fat. And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the American accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. “You are disappointed," Ausable said wheezily over his shoulder. (2020)
(a) Who is ‘you’ here?
(i) Fowler
(ii) Ausable
(iii) Waiter
(iv) Max
View AnswerAns: (i)
"You" refers to Fowler, a writer who expected a more typical spy experience.
(b) Ausable was a native of _______.
(i) France
(ii) Germany
(iii) the U.S.
(iv) Sweden
View AnswerAns: (iii)
Ausable was originally from Boston in the United States.
(c) ‘You believed that Ausable was a _______.
View AnswerAns: mysterious looking secret agent, a spy, dealing in espionage and danger.
(d) He spoke French like an _______.
View AnswerAns: American
Despite his fluency, Ausable retained his American accent.
Q8: Max bit his lip nervously. The knocking was repeated. “What will you do now, Max?” Ausable asked. "If I do not answer the door, they will enter anyway. The door is unlocked. And they will not hesitate to shoot.” Max's face was black with anger as he backed swiftly towards the window. (2020 C)
(a) Who was knocking at the door?
(i) A waiter
(ii) A policeman
(iii) A friend
(iv) A guest
View AnswerAns: (i)
The knocking was from the waiter, though Ausable implied it was the police.
(b) Ausable, by profession, was a
(i) salesman
(ii) player
(iii) secret agent
(iv) policeman
View AnswerAns: (iii)
Ausable is a secret agent involved in intelligence work.
(c) Max bit his lip nervously because _______.
View AnswerAns: someone was knocking at the door
(d) Max went towards the window to _______.
View AnswerAns: escape from the 'police' who were knocking at the door
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