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Midnight Express Questions and Answers
Today in this post we will discuss the answers to all the questions in the story of “Midnight Express”, the thirteenth of class 8 English.
আজকে আমাদের এই পোস্টে অষ্টম শ্রেণীর ইংরেজির একাদশ চ্যাপ্টার অর্থাৎ “মিডনাইট এক্সপ্রেস” কবিতার সমস্ত প্রশ্নের উত্তর আলোচনা করব।
Midnight Express Activity 1
Tick the correct alternative:
(i) Mortimer found the book
(a) at a friend’s place
(b)in a book fair
(c) in his father’s library
Answer: Mortimer found the book – in his father’s library.
(ii) The illustration on the page showed
(a) a vast sea
(b) an empty railway platform
(c) a dark library room
Answer: The illustration on the page showed – an empty railway platform
(iii) Mortimer was able to read up to
(a) page fifty of the book
(b) the last page of the book
(c) page fifty-five of the boo
Answer: Mortimer was able to read up to – page fifty-five of the boo
(iv) Here Midnight Express is
(a) an express train
(b) a railway station
(c) a book
Answer: Here Midnight Express is – a book
Midnight Express Activity 2
Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
(1) As a young man, Mortimer was waiting for a train in an empty junction. [4]
(2) Mortimer found a battered old book. [1]
(3) He started to read the story by candlelight. [3]
(4) Mortimer stopped at page fifty while reading the story. [5]
(5) The illustration of the story frightened Mortimer every time. [6]
(6) Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book. [2]
Midnight Express Activity 3
Answer the following question:
Why do you think Mortimer never read beyond page fifty of the book?
Answer: The picture of an empty railway platform at night by a dull yellow lamp threatened him always. It was before page fifty. So Mortimer was never beyond page fifty.
Midnight Express Activity 4
Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
(a) Mortimer noticed in the lamp light a known dark solitary figure.
(b) The solitary figure faced the black mouth of a tunnel.
(c) Walking towards the figure Mortimer was shocked.
(d) The shadowy figure stood with a candle.
Midnight Express Activity 5
Answer the following questions:
(a) When had Mortimer seen the ‘dark and solitary figure’ in his childhood?
Answer: Mortimer suddenly noticed a dark and solitary figure in the light of the lamp.
(b) “Mortimer was shocked”- When was Mortimer shocked and why?
Answer: Mortimer was shocked to see the face of the dark figure.
(c) What was “steadily gaining” on Mortimer as he stumbled out of the platform?
Answer: Footsteps were steadily gaining on Mortimer.
Midnight Express Activity 6
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
(a) Mortimer found the old battered book on the armchair. [T]
S.S – By the armchair lay a battered old book bound in red leather.
(b) Mortimer realized that the book was the same one which he had read in his childhood. [T]
S.S – It was the same book form his childhood.
(c) Mortimer felt immensely afraid of the things happening around him. [T]
S.S – Mortimer was greatly afraid.
(d) In the flickering candlelight, the host was seen standing by the table. [F]
S.S – The shadowy figure stood before Mortimer.
Midnight Express Activity 7
Answer the following questions:
(a) To where did Mortimer follow the shadowy figure?
Answer: Up to an upper room Mortimer followed the shadowy figure. A bright fire was burning in the room.
(b) Why do you think Mortimer’s hands trembled when he turned the pages of the book?
Answer: In great fear Mortimer’s hands trembled when turned the pages of the book.
(c) “Mortimer tried to grasp the strange cycle of events he was going through”- what was the strange cycle of events?
Answer: The stranger cycle of events referred to the story that contained in the ‘Midnight Express’ It was about a stranger man.
(d) Do you think the strange incidents that happened to Mortimer would not have occurred if he had not read the book?
Answer: I think that the stranger incidents did not happen if Mortimer had not read the book probably.
Midnight Express Activity 8(b)
| Active Voice | Passive Voice |
|---|---|
| (i) The artist is painting a picture. | (ii) A song is being sung by Shiela. |
| (iii) The boy was flying a kite. | (iv) Football was being played by the children. |
Midnight Express Activity 8(c)
Match column A with column B:
| A | B |
|---|---|
| (i) Mother is cooking food for us. | (c) Food is being cooked by mother for us. |
| (ii) Father is baking a cake. | (d) A cake is being baked by the father. |
| (iii) The children were planting trees. | (a) Trees were being planted by the children |
| (iv)The students were learning a lesson. | (b) A lesson was being learnt by the students. |
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