CBSE Class 10 English The Midnight Visitor MCQs

Question : And as the light came on, Fowler had his first authentic thrill of the day. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man.
(i) The ‘man’ in the extract is
(a) Max
(b) Ausable
(c) Fowler
(d) Henry

Answer :  A

Question : The ‘man’ had a pistol in his hand because
(a) he wanted to shoot himself
(b) he wanted to forcibly take Ausable’s money
(c) he wanted to shoot Fowler
(d) he wanted to forcibly take the report on new missiles from Ausable

Answer :   D

Question :  Which word in the extract means the same as ‘real’ ?
(a) Thrill
(b) Authentic
(c) Genuine
(d) First

Answer :   B

Question :  Select the opposite of ‘automatic’
(a) verbal
(b) manual
(c) scalable
(d) viable

Answer :   B

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

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

Answer :   B

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

Question : Ausable was a ———.
(a) Doctor
(b) Writer
(c) Business person
(d) Secret agent

Answer :   C

Question : The report was supposed to reach in around –
(a) 12:30 at night
(b) 1 p.m.
(c) 12:30 at afternoon
(d) 5 p.m.

Answer :   A

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

Answer :   B

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

Answer :   D

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 inhis room
(d) all of the above

Answer :   D

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

Answer :    A

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

Answer :   C

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

Answer :   A

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 above

Answer :   B

Question : Was there a balcony?
(a) yes
(b) no
(c) maybe
(d) there is no mention of a balcony

Answer :   B

Question : What did Max want?
(a) Fowler
(b) phone
(c) report
(d) all of the above

Answer :  C

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

Answer :  D

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

Answer :  B

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 above

Answer :  B

Question :  Ausable had —— accent.
(a) French
(b) American
(c) Russia
(d) German

Answer :  B

Question :  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.

Question :  Who is ‘he’ in the above extract?
(a) Max
(b) Fowler
(c) Henry
(d) Ausable

Answer:   B

Question :  Where is ‘he’ at present?
(a) In a church
(b) In a hospital
(c) In a school
(d) In a hotel

Answer :  B

Question :  Which word in the extract is the opposite of ‘fluency’?
(a) Accent
(b) Greatly
(c) Passably
(d) Slowly

Answer : C