CBSE Class 10 English The Midnight Visitor MCQs Set 03

Question. Who is the author of the story “The Midnight Visitor”?
(a) James Herriot
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Robert Arthur
(d) Victor Canning
Answer: (c) Robert Arthur

Question. “_____ did not fit any description of a secret agent”.
(a) Fowler
(b) Ausable
(c) Max
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) Ausable

Question. Ausable was a _____ fellow.
(a) fat and sloppy
(b) fat and enthusiastic
(c) thin and sloppy
(d) thin and enthusiastic
Answer: (a) fat and sloppy

Question. What is the meaning of the word “wheezily”?
(a) making a sound when you can’t breather easily
(b) sneezing
(c) coughing
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) making a sound when you can’t breather easily

Question. Where was Ausable staying?
(a) Fowler’s home
(b) French hotel
(c) Max’s home
(d) French Inn
Answer: (b) French hotel

Question. Which floor was he staying at?
(a) ground floor
(b) first floor
(c) second floor
(d) top floor
Answer: (d) top floor

Question. What language did Ausable speak?
(a) German
(b) French
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)

Question. Where did he come from?
(a) Paris
(b) Germany
(c) Boston
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Boston

Question. When did he move to Paris?
(a) 5 years ago
(b) 10 years ago
(c) 20 years ago
(d) 25 years ago
Answer: (c) 20 years ago

Question. “he had never lost this _____ accent”.
(a) American
(b) French
(c) British
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) American

Question. What is the meaning of the word “espionage”?
(a) spying
(b) writing
(c) hunt
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) spying

Question. Who is Fowler?
(a) secret agent
(b) personal investigator
(c) spy
(d) writer
Answer: (d) writer

Question. How did Fowler feel after meeting Ausable?
(a) excited
(b) overwhelmed
(c) disappointed
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) disappointed

Question. What was Fowler’s “first thrill of the day”?
(a) meeting Ausable
(b) sight of a man with automatic pistol
(c) seeing a very important paper
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) sight of a man with automatic pistol

Question. What is different about Ausable?
(a) doesn’t look like an agent
(b) doesn’t get messages slipped by dark-eyed beauties
(c) gets only a phone call for appointments in his room
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. What is the meaning of the word “slender”?
(a) weak
(b) slim
(c) fat
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) slim

Question. Where did Ausable think Max was?
(a) Paris
(b) Berlin
(c) Boston
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) Berlin

Question. What did Max want?
(a) Fowler
(b) phone
(c) report
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) report

Question. How did Max claim to have entered?
(a) a passkey
(b) balcony
(c) window
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) a passkey

Question. How, according to Ausable did Max enter?
(a) a passkey
(b) balcony
(c) window
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) balcony

Question. Where did Max actually enter from?
(a) door
(b) balcony
(c) window
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) door

Question. Ausable was going to raise the issue of the balcony with _____.
(a) government
(b) management
(c) Max
(d) Fowler
Answer: (b) management

Question. What did Max have in his hand?
(a) a knife
(b) an important report
(c) a pistol
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) a pistol

Question. Whose knocking did Ausable claim it to be?
(a) police
(b) waiter
(c) Max
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) police

Question. Who was actually knocking on the door?
(a) police
(b) waiter
(c) Max
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) waiter

Question. Who jumped off the window believing there was a balcony?
(a) Max
(b) Police
(c) Ausable
(d) Fowler
Answer: (a) Max

Question. How would you describe Ausable?
(a) witty
(b) lazy
(c) selfish
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) witty

Question. How did Ausable made Max believe there was a balcony?
(a) he made him see it
(b) with detailed description
(c) there was actually a balcony
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) with detailed description

Question. How did Fowler feel at the end of the story?
(a) disappointed
(b) thrilled
(c) sad
(d) unhappy
Answer: (b) thrilled

Question. Who fell down from the top floor of the hotel?
(a) Fowler
(b) Max
(c) Ausable
(d) Waiter
Answer: (b) Max

Question. What story Ausable cocked up to Max?
(a) about the report
(b) about a balcony
(c) about his fatness
(d) about Fowler
Answer: (b) about a balcony

Question. Why did Max enter Ausable’s room?
(a) to meet Ausable
(b) to snatch an important report
(c) to give information to Ausable
(d) to spend the night
Answer: (b) to snatch an important report

Question. Max entered Ausable’s room through the _____
(a) balcony
(b) main door
(c) back door
(d) roof
Answer: (b) main door

Question. Who was Max?
(a) the manager of the hotel
(b) another secret agent
(c) Ausable’s friend
(d) Fowler’s friend
Answer: (b) another secret agent

Question. Who knocked at Ausable’s door?
(a) a policeman
(b) Max
(c) the waiter
(d) Fowler
Answer: (c) the waiter

Question. Who came to meet Ausable?
(a) Ausable’s father
(b) Policeman
(c) Fowler
(d) Max
Answer: (c) Fowler

Question. What was Fowler’s profession?
(a) writer
(b) actor
(c) fireman
(d) policeman
Answer: (a) writer

Question. Ausable was brought to Paris twenty years ago from:
(a) London
(b) Berlin
(c) Kathmandu
(d) Boston
Answer: (d) Boston

Question. Where was Ausable’s room situated in the hotel?
(a) on the ground floor
(b) on the sixth and top floor
(c) on the first and third floor
(d) on the fourth floor
Answer: (b) on the sixth and top floor

Question. What leads to Max’s death?
(a) Fighting
(b) Trick
(c) Bullet
(d) Shooting
Answer: (b) Trick

Question. Who was the intruder?
(a) Ausable
(b) Max
(c) Robert
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) Max

Question. What was Ausable expecting?
(a) An important magazine
(b) An important paper
(c) An important information
(d) All of the options
Answer: (b) An important paper

Question. What did Max carry with him while trying to get the paper from Ausable?
(a) Pistol
(b) Tobacco
(c) Rifle
(d) Knife
Answer: (a) Pistol

Question. What were the qualities of Ausable’s fertile brain?
(a) invent and cook up stories
(b) invent and cook up situations that would confuse and unnerve his rivals
(c) work under pressure
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer: (d) Both (a) and (b)

Question. What did Ausable not live up to?
(a) to the romantic picture of a secret agent from a book or movie
(b) to his commitment
(c) to his parents’ advice
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) to the romantic picture of a secret agent from a book or movie

Question. How was Ausable’s physical appearance?
(a) Fat and sloppy
(b) Fair and heighted
(c) Extremely good looking
(d) Tall, dark and handsome
Answer: (a) Fat and sloppy

Question. Who was ‘quick of action’ in the story?
(a) Robert
(b) Max
(c) Ausable
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Ausable