The Midnight Visitor
1. Who jumped off the window believing there was a balcony?
(a) Max (b) Police (c) Ausable (d) FowlerAns: (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