L-3 They Midnight Visitor

               The Midnight Visitor

               By-Robert Arthur

Extracts

1- And as the light came on, Fowler had his first authentic thrill of the day. For half way across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand , stood a man.

A- Who was standing in the room with pistol ?

1- Fowler 

2- Max

3-Ausable

4-a waiter

B-  Fowler was -

1-sacred

2- thrilled

3-nervous

4- worried

C- The room belonged to-

1- max

2 -fowler

3- Ausable

4- the author

D- The antonym of ' automatic' is-

1- manual

2-mechanized

3- self- moving

4- motorized

E-  The synonym of ' authentic' is

1-artificial

2-genuine

3-unknown

4- shallow

Answers - 1- Max, 2-thrilled, 3 - Ausable,4- manual, 5- genuine

2- You can get onto it from the empty room two doors down - and somebody did, last month. The management promised to block it off. But they haven't".

1-  Who is the speaker here?

1- a waiter

2-Fowler

3-Ausable

4- Max

2- It refers to- 

1- the room

2- the roof

3-the balcony

4-the corridor

3- The extract has been taken from-

1-The Necklace

2- The Midnights Visitor

3- The Hack Driver

4- The thief's Story

4- How many person are there?

1- Two

2- four

3- three

4- five

5- The synonym of ' empty' is-

1- occupied

2- inhabited

3- filled

4- vacant

Answers 

1- Ausable,  2- the balcony, 3- The Midnight Visitor 4- Three, 5-vacant

Answers to NCERT Questions

Q-1 How is Ausable different from other secrets ?

Ans -  Ausable was little different from other secret agents. He was extremely fat. In spite of living  Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French  and German only passably and had an American accent. He used ordinary telephones to make calls. He had a small room in a musty corridor of gloomy French hotel. It was  on the sixth and  top floor,  and it was  scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure.

Q- 2 Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day ?

Ans-  Fowler was a  writer and he had come to meet Ausable. 

Fowler' first,authentic thrill of the day  was that when he saw a man in Ausable's room, pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.

Q- 3 How has Max got in ?

Ans- Max had got into the room with a pass key or a master key.

Q-4 How does Ausable  say he got in ?

Ans- Ausable, a agent said that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony . He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room through balcony.

Q- 5 Ausable display an acute sense of awareness of his surroundings . Justify with any two instances from the text.

Ans- The two instances when Ausable displays an acute sense of awareness of his surrounding were , first, he said that he had expressed his anger with the hotel management about repeated intrusion into his room through a balcony outside his  window.

Secondly, he said to Max that he had called the police for protection of the important papers he was to receive , and now on the door there is  police.