Class 10 Eng. Midnight Visitor Ch-3 Question answer Theme, Message, Characters explanation

Ch-3 

Midnight Visitor 

     

THEME 

The story highlights the theme that wisdom is more powerful than other weapons. Ausable's intelligence is highlighted in the story. It is also based on the theme that one should not judge a person by merely his appearance.

 . Message

The message of this story is that we should not trust anyone without discovering out about that person.the intelligence of Ausable as he took the benefit of the circumstances and successfully befooled Max. Max was completely deceived by Ausable and did what was planned by Ausable. Since he jumped from the top floor of the hotel, he expired.

Moral Values 

The Midnight Visitor' teaches us many values such as: sincerity in work, devotion to duty, and presence of mind. Ausable is a secret agent who has all the above mentioned qualities. His physical appearance and joviality deceive everyone.

Ausable

Ausable is a detective. He is one such secret agent, who expects to get some sensitive papers in his hotel room.Ausable is different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He has a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel.

Max

Max is a secret agent and enemy of Ausable. He is a slender man, who is not very tall. He looks cunning, and crafty and has sharp features like a fox. He was not a dangerous man but he had a pistoll

Fowler

Fowler was a young writer who wanted to write an article on Ausable.He met Ausable on evening at his hotel for the same purpose.

Q1. How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

Ans. Ausable is different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He has a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. Ausable was rotund. In spite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German with difficulty and had an American accent. Instead of getting messages passed secretly to him by beautiful girls, he got only a routine telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional notion of a secret agent.He dealt with Max by inventing some stories and convincing Max to act on them, so that he could get rid of Max permanently.

Q2. 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.

His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man

in Ausable's room pointing a pistol at Ausable and himself.

Q3. How has Max got in?

Ans. Max had got into the room using a passkey or master key.

Q4. How does Ausable say he got in?

Ans. Ausable said that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony under the window of his room. He said that it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room this way.

Q6. How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?

Ans. Ausable creates a detailed description of how his office was part of a bigger apartment and how the next room had a direct connection with a balcony. His statement that somebody else also broke into his office through that balcony earlier made it a convincing story. Ausable's ability to think quickly and act calmly in a situation of panic makes it convincing.

Q7. Why did Max's face turn black with anger? What did he want Ausable to do?

Ans7. When a knock was heard on the door, Ausable informed Max that as requested by him, the police had arrived to personally provide protection to Ausable and the important report as a safety measure. Realising that his chances of acquiring the crucial document were now acute. Therefore, Max's face turned black with anger.Max wanted Ausable to send the police away while he waited in the balcony.

Q8. Why did Ausable frame the story of the balcony?

Ans8. Max had plans to procure the reports of the new missiles from Ausable for which he held both Ausable and Fowler at gun point and threatened to kill them. Ausable's convincing lie about the existence of a balcony below the window of his room. Max believe that it was true, and that if he jumped off the window he would land straight on that balcony. Such blind faith in a non existent balcony gave Max the confidence to jump without looking down and fall to his death, thus, ensuring the safety of the important report as well as Ausable's and Fowler's lives.

Q9. Who actually had knocked at the door of Ausable's room? Why did he come there?

Ans9. The door of Ausable's room was actually knocked by a waiter. He had brought the drink Ausable had asked to be sent up to his room.

Q10. What made the story of the balcony so convincing? What did Ausable say about the balcony?

Ans10. The story of the balcony seemed so convincing because Ausable sounded genuinely displeased by the hotel staff for not covering up the balcony below his window. According to Ausable, it created real nuisance for him as somebody had already entered his room once before with the help of the balcony. He also said that the balcony was not his but belonged to the next apartment, and earlier his room used to be a part of a large unit.

Q11. How did Ausable get rid of Max without the use a weapon?

Ans11. In order to get rid of Max, Ausable came up with some

very convincing lies. First he told Max there was an easily

accessible balcony just below the window of this room. Then, when there came a knocking sound on the door, Ausable told Max that it was the police who had come to provide extra protection to Ausable as well as the important report Although it wasn't the police at the door and there wasn't actually a balcony under the window, Ausable's calm and confident demeanour fooled Max in no time and led him to believe every word that came out of Ausable's mouth. Max didn't seem to really need further proof of whether there really was a balcony or police at the door. He jumped off the window without looking first and fell to his death.

Q12. Did Max survive his jump from the window of Ausable's room? What happened to Max after he jumped?

12. Ausable's hotel room was on the sixth floor. No Max could not have survived the fall from such a height. After Max jumped off the windowsill of Ausable's room he was heard screaming very loudly only once.

Q13. Describe Fowler's reaction after entering Ausable's hotel room.

Ans13. Fowler's meeting with Ausable had turned out to be t nothing like he had expected. It was in fact going somewhat dull, and nothing interesting or remotely spy-like had happened s thus far. However, as soon as he and Ausable entered the d latter's hotel room and the lights were switched on, they

found a man standing halfway across the room, pointing an automatic pistol at them demanding the report on some new missiles to be handed over to him. This was the first authentic thrill of the day that Fowler had that evening.

14. Write a short note on Ausable

14. Ausable was a quick witted, brilliant secret agent, who was so great that his lies were enough to get rid of his enemies. Appearance wise, Ausable looked nothing like the charming, elegant secret agents one comes across in movies and novels. The man was fat and sloppy. He spoke good enough German and French but with an American accent, which he couldn't seem to lose. Although Ausable was a spy dealing with espionage and danger, unlike what's commonly expected, there were no mysterious figures in the night, crack of pistols or drug in the wine. There were no beautiful, young women secretly slipping Ausable encoded messages. Instead, he received an ordinary phone call making an appointment in his hotel room.

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