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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. ‘‘I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it,’’ he said grimly. ‘‘This is the second time in a month that somebody has got into my room through that nuisance of a balcony!’’

(d) Ausable was playing a ___________ on his visitor.

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(d) Ausable was playing a prank on his visitor.

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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. ‘‘I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it,’’ he said grimly. ‘‘This is the second time in a month that somebody has got into my room through that nuisance of a balcony!’’

(b) Why was Ausable angry with the management?

(i) His room was unsafe.

(ii) The food was not good.

(iii) The balcony was a nuisance

(iv) The armchair was not soft.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. ‘‘I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it,’’ he said grimly. ‘‘This is the second time in a month that somebody has got into my room through that nuisance of a balcony!’’

(c) Was there a balcony with the room ? Yes/No.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. ‘‘I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time, and you can bet on it,’’ he said grimly. ‘‘This is the second time in a month that somebody has got into my room through that nuisance of a balcony!’’

(a) Who is Ausable?

(i) A secret agent

(ii) A tourist in a hotel

(iii) A reporter

(iv) A businessman

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

Ausable was, for one thing, fat. Very fat. And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the American accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago.

‘‘You are disappointed,’’ Ausable said wheezily over his shoulder.
‘You’ believed that Ausable was a __________ .

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Ausable was, for one thing, fat. Very fat. And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the American accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago.

‘‘You are disappointed,’’ Ausable said wheezily over his shoulder.

Who is ‘you’ here ?

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