NCERT English Class 10 | Chapter 3 | The Midnight Visitor | MCQs |

1. Who didn't fit any description of a secret agent?  

A. Max      

B. Ausable 

C. Fowler   

D. None of these.

... Answer: "B"

2. Ausable shifted to Paris twenty years ago from ______. 

A. Boston  

B. Moscow

C. London 

D. Bonn     

... Answer: "A"

3. Who was Fowler?    

A. Actor    

B. Policeman       

C. Writer   

D. Secret Agent   

... Answer: "C"

4. Who was the guest in the story? 

A. Ausable 

B. Max      

C. Henry    

D. Fowler  

... Answer: "D"

5. Who was Max?        

A. Ausable's friend       

B. Fowler's friend

C. Hotel manager

D. Another secret agent

... Answer: "D"

6. "The Midnight Visitor" is written by _____.

A. Robert Arthur

B. James Herriot 

C. Victor Canning         

D. Ruskin Bond  

... Answer: "A"

7. Ausable was a _______ fellow.  

A. tall and handsome    

B. dull and boring

C. fat and sloppy

D. active and smart       

... Answer: "C"

8. What does the word 'wheezily' mean in the story?

A. Coughing        

B. Sneezing

C. Making a sound when you can't breathe easily        

D. None of these.

... Answer: "C"

9. Ausable thinks that Max was in ______.      

A. Boston  

B. Berlin    

C. Paris      

D. London 

... Answer: "B"

10. What does the word 'espionage' mean in the story?      

A. writing  

B. hunting  

C. spying   

D. None of these.

... Answer: "C"

11. Why did Max enter the room? 

A. To kill Fowler 

B. To kill Ausable         

C. To snatch the important report from Ausable

D. To snatch the important report from Fowler 

... Answer: "C"

12. What language did Ausable speak?  

A. French   

B. German 

C. Both 'A' and 'B'        

D. None of these.

... Answer: "C"

13. How would you describe Ausable?    

A. Lazy      

B. Selfish   

C. Witty     

D. All of these.    

... Answer: "C"

14. How according to Ausable did Max enter the room?    

A. A passkey      

B. Balcony 

C. Window

D. Roof      

... Answer: "B"

15. Whose knocking did Ausable claim it to be?       

A. Police    

B. Waiter   

C. Manager

D. Room service  

... Answer: "A"

16. What was Fowler's 'first thrill of the day'? 

A. Seeing the important paper

B. Seeing Max with a pistol   

C. Meeting Ausable      

D. None of these.

... Answer: "B"

17. How did Fowler feel after meeting Ausable?        

A. Overwhelmed 

B. Disappointed  

C. Excited  

D. None of these.

... Answer: "B"

18. How did Fowler feel at the end of the story?        

A. Confused        

B. Disappointed  

C. Lost       

D. Thrilled 

... Answer: "D"