The Midnight Visitor

1. Who jumped off the window believing there was a balcony?

(a) Max (b) Police (c) Ausable (d) Fowler

Ans: (a) Max

2. Why did Max enter his room?

(a) To shoot Fowler

(b) To shoot Ausable (c) To snatch a crucial report from Ausable (d) To snatch a crucial report from Fowler Ans. (c) To snatch a crucial report from Ausable

3. Who is the writer of the story "The Midnight Visitor"?

(a) James Herriot

(b) Robert Arthur
(c) Victor Canning

(d) H.G Wells Ans. (b) Robert Arthur

4. How would you describe Ausable ?

(a) Witty

(b) Lazy (c) Selfish (d) All of the above Ans. (a) Witty

5. Whose knocking did Ausable claim it to be?

(a) Police (b) waiter (c) Max (d) None of the above

Ans: (a) Police
6. The story "The Midnight Visitor" is set in a _____.

(a) French Hotel

(b) British Hotel

(c) Spanish Hotel

(d) German Hotel

Ans: (a) French Hotel

7. Where did Ausable think Max was ?

(a) Boston

(b) Paris

(c) Berlin

(d) None of the above

Ans: (c) Berlin

8. How did Fowler feet after meeting Ausable ?

(a) overwhelmed

(b) disappointed

(c) excited

(d) None of the above

Ans: (b) disappointed

9. Where did Max actually enter from ?

(a) window

(b) door

(c) balcony

(d) None of the above

Ans: (b) door

10. What is the meaning of the word "espionage"?

(a) writing

(b) hunt

(c) spying

(d) None of these

Ans: (c) spying

11. How did Max claim to have entered ?

(a) a passkey

(b) window

(c) balcony

(d) None of the above

Ans: (a) a passkey

12. What is different about Ausable ?

(a) He doesn't get messages slipped by dark-eyed beauties

(b) He gets only a phone call for appointments in his room

(c) He doesn't look like an agent

(d) All of the above

Ans: (d) All of the above

13. Where was Ausable staying ?

(a) French hotel

(b) French Inn

(c) Fowler's home

(d) Max's hotel

Ans: (a) French hotel

14. Where did Max jump through the window ?

(a) office of the hotel

(b) The roof of the other room

(c) balcony

(d) inside the other room

Ans: (c) balcony

15. When did Ausable move to Paris ?

(a) Five years ago

(b) Twenty years ago

(c) Thirty years ago

(d) Fifteen years ago

Ans: (b) Twenty years ago

16. With whom was Ausable going to raise the issue of the balcony ?

(a) Max

(b) The French Government

(c) The management of the hotel

(d) None of these

Ans: (c) The management of the hotel

17. What language did Ausable speak ?

(a) German and Spanish
(b) French and Arabic

(c) English and Portuguese

(d) German and French

Ans: (d) German and French

18. Ausable was a _ fellow.

(a) fat and enthusiastic

(b) fat and sloppy

(c) Thin and sloppy

(d) Thin and enthusiastic

Ans: (b) fat and sloppy

19. Where was Ausable's room situated in the hotel ?

(a) on the first floor

(b) on the second floor

(c) on the ground floor

(d) on the sixth and top floor

Ans: (d) on the sixth and top floor

20. What was Max holding in his hand ?

(a) a pistol

(b) a stick

(c) a knife

(d) a piece of paper

Ans: (a) a pistol

21. What was Ausanle's profession ?

(a) A tourist

(b) Diplomat

(c) Secret agent

(d) Soldier

Ans: (c) Secret agent

22. What was Fowler's Profession ?

(a) Actor

(b) Writer

(c) Policeman

(d) Secret agent

Ans: (b) Writer

23. Where was the balcony ?

(a) outside the window of the room

(b) on the roof of the room

(c) outside the back door of the room

(d) None of These

Ans: (a) outside the window of the room

24. Who is the guest in the story' the Midnight Visitor'?

(a) Ausable

(b) Max

(c) Henry

(d) Fowler

Ans: (d) Fowler