CBSE Class 12 English The Third Level MCQs Set 04

Question: What does the Third Level signify?
a) a human tendency to escape from the harsh realities of the present to past happy times
b) A third way on Grand Central station
c) A third gate on Grand Central Station
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Who was sam in The Third Level?
a) a doctor
b) a friend
c) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley
d) None
Answer: c

Question: What happens when Charley enters the Grand Central Station?
a) He finds a huge tree like Station
b) new staircases, corridors and tunnels
c) tree keeps spreading its roots throwing rooms and windows
d) All of these
Answer: d

Question: What is Sam’s letter to Charles represent?
a) A blend
b) an acceptance to visit
c) a blend of reality with fantasy
d) a proof of his fantasy
Answer: c

Question: What was Jack’s full name?
a) Walter Braden Jack Finey
b) Stephen Jone Jack
c) Ray Douglas Bradbury
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?
a) As a result of stress and anxiety in his mind
b) wanted to meet his friends
c) wanted to take a break from office
d) as a wish to visit Galesberg
Answer: a

Question: What convinced Charly that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and not the second level?
a) A different world of gas lights and brass spittoons
b) beards and mustaches of 1894
c) newspaper with a date June 11, 1894
d) All of these
Answer: d

Question: What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
a) it was past
b) representing a peaceful, romantic living time
c) Author’s childhood time
d) Authors’ parents were alive
Answer: b

Question: Who had sent that ‘First Day cover’ and when?
a) Sam’s father
b) Sam, a psychiatrist in 1894
c) Sam’s friend
d) Sam’s uncle
Answer: b

Question: Why did Charley visit Sam?
a) To consult the incident of Third Level incident at Grand Central Station
b) To invite him
c) to invite him to accompany at Galesberg
d) To guide him in Galesberg
Answer: a

Question: What is the meaning of ‘Waking dream wish fulfillment’?
a) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
b) a pleasant wish that takes one to the future
c) A pleasant wish which inspires to work
d) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
Answer: a

Question: Who was Charles’ wife?
a) a woman
b) a woman with bright top
c) A woman at The Third Level
d) Louisa
Answer: d

Question: What are the author’s best known works?
a) English and Science fiction
b) Science and history fiction
c) Science fiction and nature
d) Science fiction and thrillers
Answer: d

Question: What is Sam’s letter testimony to in the lesson proving?
a) his acceptance to travel
b) Charles’ tendency of escapism from the realities
c) Sam accompanying Charles
d) his refusal to travel
Answer: b

Question: Why was Louisa, Charley’s wife worried?
a) Knowing the incident of Third Level
b) for not getting tickets
c) tickets were delayed
d) Sam was scaring
Answer: a

Question: What is the theme of the lesson?
a) time travelling
b) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present
c) theory of escapism
d) a dialogue between a patient and a psychiatrist
Answer: b

Question: How did Charlie reach the Third Level?
a) In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than a bus
b) in a superfast train
c) in jetways
d) in an escalator
Answer: a

Question: In what way do we try to overcome the insecurities of the present harsh times?
a) by engaging ourselves in practical activities
b) by talking to friends and family
c) reading good books
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: How does the story begin?
a) in a jovial manner
b) in an aggressive manner
c) on a happy note
d) in a serious manner
Answer: d

Question: Whose signatures were there on the letter?
a) Charle’s teacher
b) Charle’s friend
c) Sam
d) None
Answer: c

True False Questions

Question: Charley’s three hundred dollars bought him less than two hundred in old-style bills.
Answer: True

Question: According to the letter, Charley was invited for a dinner party.
Answer: False

Question: Visiting the Psychiatrist was charley’s Obvious step.
Answer: True

Question: To celebrate Louisa’s birthday Charley took the subway from Grand Central to reach home.
Answer: False

Question: Charley caught a glimpse of a locomotive with a funnel shaped stack at the Third Level.
Answer: True

Question: According to Charley President Cleveland used to collect stamps too.
Answer: False

Question: The hobby of collecting stamp is called as philately.
Answer: True

Question: A first day cover is never opened because a blank paper is put in the envelope.
Answer: True

Question: Charley visited the library to confirm the main story of the newspaper.
Answer: False

Question: The letter sent by Sam to charley’s grandfather on July 18, 1894 had a six cent stamp with dull brown picture of president Garfield.
Answer: True

Question: The man in the booth wore green goggles and short black sleeve protectors.
Answer: False

Assertion Reason Question

Question:
Assertion (A): Charley experienced third level in the Grand Central Station.
Reason (R): He wanted to escape from the world of insecurity, fear, war & worry.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion (A): Sam said that Charley’s stamp collecting was a ‘temporary refuge from realty.’
Reason (R): Charley had strong desire to imitate his grandfather and even President Roosevelt.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion (A): Charley was a psychiatrist and he had entered the third level in reality.
Reason (R): Through third level Charley reached 1894 and he thought he would be able to go to Galesburg, a peaceful place.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: d

Question:
Assertion (A): The third level does not exist in the Grand Central Station. It was a ‘waking dream wish fulfilment’ for Charley.
Reason (R): People try to overcome the insecurities of the present harsh times by any means.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) .A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): Sam, the psychiatrist friend of Charley, had written a letter to him from Galesburg.
Reason(R): ‘Third Level’ is a blend of reality and fantasy.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): Sam continued his hay, feed and grain business even in Galesburg.
Reason (R): As a city boy, Sam was able to outsmart Charley in making money wherever he was.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: d

Question:
Assertion (A): The Clerk refused to take money from Charley.
Reason (R): The currency Charley had was not in use in 1894.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): Charley noticed that lights at the station were dim and flickering.
Reason(R): In 1894, open gaslights were used at the railway station.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): Charley looked at the newspaper. It was The WorlD) He realized he was in a different worlD)
Reason(R): Charley knew that The World is no longer published in the world he came from.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): Sam cannot start his psychiatric practice.
Reason (R): There life is peaceful and no one needs a psychiatrist.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion (A): At the stamp and coin store I go to, I found out that Sam bought eight hundred dollars’ worth of old-style currency.
Reason (R): That ought to set him up in a nice little hay, feed and grain business; he always said that’s what Sam really wished he could do.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true
Answer: b