{"id":52116,"date":"2019-10-01T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbselabs.com\/?p=52116"},"modified":"2021-09-18T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T09:46:56","slug":"ncert-solutions-class-10-english-footprints-without-feet-chapter-3-midnight-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbselabs.com\/ncert-solutions-class-10-english-footprints-without-feet-chapter-3-midnight-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"
the midnight visitor class 10 question answers – Read and Find Out (Page 14)<\/strong><\/p>\n Question 1. Question 2. More Resources for CBSE Class 10<\/strong><\/p>\n the midnight visitor class 10 question answers – Page 15<\/strong><\/p>\n Question 3. Question 4. the midnight visitor class 10 question answers – Think About It (Page 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n Question 1. Question 2. Question 3. the midnight visitor class 10 question answers – Talk About It (Page 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n Question 1. Question 2. You may suggest other such situations. NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor the midnight visitor class 10 question answers – Read and Find Out (Page 14) Question 1. How is Ausable different from other secret agents? (or) What great qualities made Ausable a successful secret agent? CBSE 2013 (or) How was Ausable different …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nHow is Ausable different from other secret agents?
\n(or)
\nWhat great qualities made Ausable a successful secret agent? CBSE 2013
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\nHow was Ausable different from other secret agents? CBSE 2011
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\nHow is Ausable different from other secret agents? How does he deal with Max? CBSE 2012
\nAnswer:
\nAusable 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. He was extremely fat. 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.
\nHe dealt with Max by inventing some stories and convincing Max to act on them, so that he could get rid of Max permanently.<\/p>\n
\nWho is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
\nAnswer:
\nFowler is a writer and he had come to meet Ausable. His first authentic thrill of the day came when he saw a man in Ausable\u2019s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and himself.<\/p>\n\n
\nHow has Max got in?
\nAnswer:
\nMax had got into the room using a passkey or master key.<\/p>\n
\nHow does Ausable say he got in?
\nAnswer:
\nAusable 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 this way.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read.” What do secret agents in books and films look like, in your opinion? Discuss in groups or in class some stories or movies featuring spies, detectives and secret agents, and compare their appearance with that of Ausable in this story. (You may mention characters from fiction in languages other than English. In English fiction you may have come across Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Miss Marple. Have you watched any movies featuring James Bond?)
\nAnswer:
\nSecret agents in fiction are projected like ideal men, \u2018Tall dark and handsome\u2019. They are usually well-built and keep beautiful women for company. They would smoke a pipe (like Sherlock Holmes) or a cigar and execute death-defying stunts (like James Bond). Movies based on James Bond show hi-tech gadgets which assist the detective in countering villains. However, there are some exceptions to this appearance of a secret agent also. A character named Feluda was created by Satyajit Ray, the famous Bengali filmmaker. Feluda was a tall athletic figure who relied on his superb analytical ability and observation skill.<\/p>\n
\nHow 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?
\nAnswer:
\nAusable creates a detailed description of how his office was part 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\u2019s ability to think quickly and calmly in a situation of panic makes it convincing.<\/p>\n
\nLooking back at the story, when do you think Ausable thought up his plan for getting rid of Max? Do you think he had worked out his plan in detail right from the beginning? Or did he make up a plan taking advantage of events as they happened?
\nAnswer:
\nNo, I don\u2019t think that he had worked out his plan in detail earlier. He took advantage of events as they happened. Ausable made up a story of the balcony outside the room and as there was a knock at the door, he said that it would be the police. All these made Max desperate. He became restless and without seeing below, jumped out of the window.<\/p>\n
\nIn this story, Ausable shows great ‘presence of mind’, or the ability to think quickly and act calmly and wisely, in a situation of danger and surprise. Give examples from your own experience, or narrate a story, which shows someone’s presence of mind.
\nAnswer:
\nThis story refers to the play \u2018If I Were You\u2019. Gerrard was held hostage by a criminal. However, Gerrard treated the criminal as a guest and trapped him with his confidence. He managed to convince the criminal to run away as the police is behind him. He told the criminal to run through the exit door, which was actually a cupboard door. The criminal exited through the door and was trapped in the cupboard.<\/p>\n
\nDiscuss what you would do in the situations described below. Remember that presence of mind comes out of a state of mental preparedness. If you have thought about possible problems or dangers, and about how to act in such situations, you have a better chance of dealing with such situations if they do arise.<\/p>\n\n
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n