Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Midnight Visitor NCERT Solutions | Who is Fowler and what is his first auth

“Ausable 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?)

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?

Looking 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?

How does Ausable say he got in?

How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

How has Max got in?

Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

How did the invisible man first become visible?

How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?

What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?

Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?

Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?

Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?

What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?

What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?

The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace. Comment.

What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?

How do they replace the necklace?

Does she find her teacher different from the people at home?

What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?

What experiments and projects does he then undertake?

Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?

What kind of a person is her husband?