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CHAPTER : The Midnight Visitor Question Answer HSLC 2023
TEXT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q.1. Give a brief description of Ausable. Or Who is Ausable? What a type of a man he was?
Ans. Ausable is a secret agent. But he did not fit the description of a secret agent. He lived in a small room on top of a French hotel. He was a man who had presence of mind. He is also prudent as can be seen from how he treated with max and befooled him. In appearance he was very fat. Though he could speak French and German passably, he could not drop his American accent. He lived in Paris, and it was there where he "befooled Max showing him a false balcony.
Q.2. Who was Fowler? Give a description of his meeting with Ausable.
Ans. Fowler, as said by Ausable, was a writer, young and romantic. He envisioned mysterious figures in the night, the crack of pistols, drugs in wine. He was a writer of detective stories. Ausable gave him a tele phonic call to meet him in his room. Accordingly he came and met Ausable in a musty corridor of a French hotel where Ausable had his room. Ausable said over his shoulder that he had been told that he was a spy. Then Ausable said that Fowler must have felt disillusioned. Then he told him about a paper for which several men and women had risked their lives. The letter had come to him. He added that soon that paper might affect the course of history. Then Ausable switched on the light. Max was surprised to see in Ausable's room a man standing holding a small pistol. The man holding the pistol was Max. Ausable asked him what he had been doing in his room.
Q3. Who was Max? Give a brief description of his conversation with Ausable.
Ans. Max was also a Spy. Ausable met him in his room. It seemed that they had known each other. Ausable thought that Max was in Berlin and was surprised to find him in his room. Max had entered the room secretly while Ausable was not there. He was a stender man of moderate height. His pointed face was like that of a fox that signified that he was a crafty person. He told Ausable that he had come with the idea of taking the letter from him as it would remain safer in his hands than in Ausable's. Then Ausable wondered how Max could get into his room. He wanted to raise the matter with the management. Then with a view to hoodwink Max. Ausable told him about that imaginary balcony through which, as he suspected, Max had entered his room. Max said that he did not enter the room through any balcony. He entered using passkey. Max added. that if he knew of the balcony it might have saved him some trouble.
SEBA Class 10th Midnight Visitor Question Answer HSLC 2023
Q.4. What did Ausable say about the balcony? What purpose did it serve?
Ans. Ausable said about the imaginary balcony to dupe and hood wink Max whom he found in his room white he was away. Finding Max in his room holding a pistol and demanding the report Ausable created the scene of the imaginary balcony. When Max said that he did not know about the balcony, Ausable replied that it was not his balcony and it belonged to the next apartment. He told Max that his room used to be a part of a larger unit and the next room through that door used to be the living room and that had the balcony. He added the balcony extended under his window. He told that max could get on to that from the empty room two doors down. Further he said that somebody got down through that in the previous month and the management promised to block that. The balcony served a big purpose. To escape from police Max turned the door knob, pushed with his left hand to free himself from the sill and dropped to the balcony. They he screamed once shrilly and was heard no more. Ausable told Fowler at the end there was no balcony.
Q.5. How did Max try to get the report from Ausable? What hap
pened to him in the end and how?
Ans. Ausable asked Max how he came to know about the report. Max smiled evilly and asked in return how Ausable's men got the same re port. He added that he would get the report that night. Max was warning the pistol to threaten Fowler and Ausable. Just then a sudden knocking at the door was heard. Max asked who was There at the window. Fowler jumped. But Ausable said that there must be some policemen at the door. He added that such an important paper for which they had been waiting must have some extra protection. So he called the police to check him to make sure that everything was alright. Ausable asked Max what he would want to do. Further he said that if he did not open the door, they would enter any way. Max's face turned black with anger and he back swiftly towards the window. He asked Ausable to send the police way. Otherwise he threatened to shoot to take his chances. The knocking at the door grew louder.
Finally Max turned the door knob, pushed with his left hard to free himself and fell down through that imaginary balcony. Nothing more than a shrill scream was heard of him.
SEBA Class 10th Midnight Visitor Question Answer HSLC 2023
Q.6. Briefly describe how Ausable defeated Max's scheme to take away the report.
Ans. Ausable and Fowler found Max inside Ausable's small room on top of the sixth floor of a French hotel. It was late in the evening when they entered the room. The room had been closed and as reported by Max, he entered the room opening the door. He said this when Ausable tactfully mentioned of a balcony and asked Max if he had entered the room through the balcony. Max was holding a pistol and threatened to have the report. In the mean time Ausable gave a vivid description of the imaginary balcony. He said that the balcony was a part of the next apartment and it extended to his window. He even said that the management had assured to block it. Naturally Max and Fowler were convinced about the exist ence of the balcony.
Just then there was heard a knocking at the door and it grew louder and more frequent. Asked by Max Ausable said that he had colled the police to provide extra protection to the report. Hearing about police Max went near the window and with one of his legs put on the sill he threatened to shoot the policemen. When the knocking grew louder. Max, with a view to escaping from police pushed with his left hand. His idea was that he would land on the balcony. But he fell down. Only a shrill scream of his was heard.
Q.7. Who, between Ausable and Max, do you think is more intelligent?
Ans. Undoubtedly Ausable is more intelligent than Max. The progress of the story justifies Ausable more intelligent nature and his approach to solve the problem. He was a cool headed person who did not raise any hue and cry when he found Max holding a pistol in his locked room. Ausable was so prudent and quick witted that to deceive Max's threat he created the sory of that balcony which was nothing but a figment of imagination. He also created the scene of knocking at the door of the room to let Max know that policeman were there at the gate. Finally. believing in Ausable's words he wanted to escape through the balcony which was really not there. He fell down to where he did not know. Only a shrill scream was heard as his last voice. Thus Ausable with his presence of mind frustrated Max's design and got rid of him. Ausable's activities proved him to be more intelligent than Max.
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