{"id":22275,"date":"2026-06-21T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/understanding-burn-the-midnight-oil-for-students\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:01:33","slug":"understanding-burn-the-midnight-oil-for-students","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/understanding-burn-the-midnight-oil-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Burn the midnight oil for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which answer best describes <strong>Burn the midnight oil<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to waste oil<\/li>\n<li>to sleep early<\/li>\n<li>to light a candle at noon<\/li>\n<li>to study or work late at night<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[2495],"class_list":["post-22275","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-7"],"mcq_note":"<p>Use <strong>Burn the midnight oil<\/strong> when you want to express the idea of to study or work late at night. It is a fixed expression, so the full phrase carries the meaning.<\/p><p>Examples: I had to <strong>burn the midnight oil<\/strong> before the exam. She <strong>burned the midnight oil<\/strong> to finish her project.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"to waste oil"},{"right":"no","answer":"to sleep early"},{"right":"no","answer":"to light a candle at noon"},{"right":"yes","answer":"to study or work late at night"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}