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The Midnight Visitor Questions and Answers

The Midnight Visitor Questions Answers 

1. Give a description of Max’s conversation with Ausable. [H.S.L.C. 2017]OR               Describe the meeting between Ausable and Max.

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was spying a report on a missile. He did not look smart and intelligent but he proved his intelligence by misguiding Max. Max was another secret agent. He tried to collect the report from Ausable at gunpoint. Ausable was staying in a hotel. But in spite of Max’s appearance, he sat heavily and calmly on the chair and he chided the management for not correcting the balcony. The balcony was constructed for the other apartment, a portion of it was extending adjacent to Ausable’s room. So, anyone could enter his room from the other apartment. However, Max said that he had to find some other way to enter the room. And he was not aware of the Balcony. Meanwhile, the doorbell rang and Ausable said that he had called the police for security reasons. Max was frightened. He then jumped out of the window to escape and hide on the balcony.

1. How did Ausable be fool Max? or briefly describe how Ausable defeated Max’s scheme to take away the report. [H.S.L.C-16]

OR               How did Ausable get rid of Max?

OR               Describe how Ausable outsmart Max?

OR           How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room?

OR  How does Ausable manage to make believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? [H.S.L.C 2015, 2019]. Look at his detailed descriptions of it. What makes it a convincing story? 

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was on a mission to collect a report on missile. He looked neither smart nor intelligent but he proved his intelligence by misguiding Max. Max was another secret agent. He tried to collect the report from Ausableat gunpoint. When Ausable with Fowler, a young romantic writer entered the room, he was surprised to see Max. So, he created a convincing story to misguide Max that there was a balcony attached to his room. He said that the balcony was for the next apartment but it was extended to the window. He said that somebody had entered the room through the balcony. Ausable played the role of being irritated at the hotel management about the balcony. He also said that despite his repeated complaints to the management for blocking it off, no action had been taken. 

Ausable told this imaginary story in such a convincing way that Max fully believed that there was a balcony outside the window. At that time a waiter of the hotel knocked at the door. Ausable told Max that it would be the police. The police were coming to check whether everything was alright. Max already believed in the existence of the balcony. To get rid of the police he jumped onto the balcony and felt down and probably died as there was no balcony. In this way, Ausable befooled Max and defeated Max’s schema to take away the report.  

2. Describe the meeting between Ausable and Fowler?

OR Who was Fowler? Why did he meet Ausable? [Give a description of his meeting with Ausable.] [H.S.L.C. 2018]

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent who was spying a report on a missile. He did not look smart and intelligent. Fowler was a writer who was writing a novel on detectives. Fowler wanted to study the life of a spy. So he accompanied on Ausable in one of his detective missions.

  Fowler found the meeting so distasteful because he did not see any adventurous moment at first. They had a dull evening in a French music hall and came to a French hotel. Fowler imagined mysterious figures around Ausable, the message slipped into his pocket. But nothing of that sort happened. But Fowler met real thrill when they saw Max in Ausable’s room. Max was another secret agent who tried to steal a report from Ausable at gunpoint. But Ausable told an imaginary story about a balcony so as to befool Max. Ausable behaved mysteriously and also told him that police had knocked at his door. Max then jumped out of the window but actually, there was no balcony. Max might have died jumping out from there. Fowler was very surprised to see the cleverness of Ausable. 

3. How was Ausable different from other secret agents?

Answer: Ausable was a secret agent engaged to spy a report on a missile. He was neither  smart nor intelligent. Ausable was very fat and he did not fit any description of a secret agent. He lived in a very small room in a French hotel. When Fowler met him, they enjoyed the evening in a French music hall. Fowler imagined mysterious figures around Ausable, the message slipped into his pocket. But nothing of that sort happened. But Fowler met real thrill when they saw Max in Ausable’s room. Max was another secret agent who tried to steal a report from Ausable at gunpoint. But Ausable told an imaginary story about a balcony so as to befool Max. Ausable gradually developed such a situation which led Max to jumped out of the window. Actually, there was no balcony attached to Ausable’s room. Max met his finals jumping out from there. Fowler was very surprised to see the cleverness of Ausable.