CBSE Class 12 English The Third Level MCQs Set E

Question: What is ‘Waking dream wish fulfillment” according to the psychiatrist in the lesson?
a) Charles finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station and realization of his wish to visit Galesberg Illinois
b) Charles escapism
c) Charles escapism from realities
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Who is the author of The Third Level?
a) George Orwell
b) Agatha Christie
c) James Joyce
d) Jack Finney
Answer: d

Question: What was Sam invited for according to the letter?
a) for a party
b) for a tea party
c) for a bachelor’s party
d) for a lemonade party
Answer: d

Question: Why do you think the Third Level was an escape for Charley?
a) Because it existed at the third storey
b) Because Sam knew about it
c) Because he shared it with Sam
d) Because it existed only in his fantasy and not in reality
Answer: d

Question: What did the letter state?
a) That everything is okay
b) that Sam is joining them
c) Third level do exist and Charle was advised to keep looking at this worthseeing place
d) None
Answer: c

Question: What did Charley see at the Third Level?
a) flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches
b) brass spittoons
c) men wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Why does Charley want to visit Galesberg?
a) to escape from the troublesome world
b) to enjoy
c) to see the beautiful landscape
d) to meet his old friends
Answer: a

Question: What kind of appearances people had at Third level and why did the clerk refuse to accept money?
a) funny and clerk refused to accept money because it was currency of modern times
b) weird and notes were big
c) weird and notes were torn
d) weird and notes were wet
Answer: a

Question: What did Charley find in his stamp collection?
a) First day cover
b) hair styles
c) old letters
d) old addresses
Answer: a

Question: What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
a) Beards
b) The corridor that led him into the past.
c) dresses
d) Mustaches
Answer: b

Question: What unusual thing the narrator sees at the Grand Central Station?
a) Trees
b) Third Level
c) motorcars
d) All these
Answer: b

Question: What was the Third Level?
a) a third tier on the station
b) a third storey on the station
c) an imaginary discovery of the narrator’s mind
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Where was Charley often lost?
a) from a train
b) from the footpath
c) from a subway faster than bus at The Central Station
d) from an escalator
Answer: c

Question: Why was the author renamed?
a) to change his name
b) Priest’s suggestion
c) to honor his mother
d) as an honor to his father
Answer: c

Question: What specific difference did Charley notice at the Third Level of Central Station?
a) Everything was weird
b) Everything was old styled and smaller in size
c) everything was too big
d) everything was shining
Answer: b

Question: Does the Third Level really exist at Grand Station?
a) Yes
b) yes, there were 3 levels
c) No, there were only two levels at the station
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Where was Charley ducked on Central Station?
a) into a room
b) into an office
c) into an arched door heading for subway
d) into a store
Answer: d

Question: What is First Day Cover?
a) A gift wrapper
b) A gift
c) A new stamp gets the Postmark and date
d) A gift wrapped in a beautiful wrapper
Answer: c

Question: How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?
a) For Charle’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level
b) It presents imagination
c) imagination happens on Central Station
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What does the Psychiatrist explain to Charlie?
a) Third level is a beautiful place
b) Third level is worthseeing
c) Third level is well maintained
d) That it was the result of stress and anxiety of his mind
Answer: d

True False Questions

Question: According to psychiatrist charley’s grand central station situation was his waking dream wish fulfilment and he was also unhappy.
Answer: True

Question: The newspaper which charley found on the third level which hasn’t been published for years was The Word.
Answer: False

Question: Stamp collecting wasn’t Charley’s ‘Temporary refuge from reality’.
Answer: False

Question: At the third level, Charley observed bronze spittoons.
Answer: False

Question: As per Charley, Sam Weiner who was his Psychiatrist went to 1894 and started a hay, feed and grain business;
Answer: True

Question: Charley had never seen so many beards, sideburns and fancy mustaches in his life, before he experienced the third level.
Answer: True

Question: One night Charley worked late at the office and was in a hurry to get downtown to his apartment.
Answer: False

Source Based Question

1. Next day, during lunch hour, I drew three hundred dollars out of the bank, nearly all we had, and bought old-style currency (that really worried my psychiatrist friend). You can buy old money at almost any coin dealer’s, but you have to pay a premium. My three hundred dollars bought less than two hundred in old-style bills, but I didn’t care; eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894. But I’ve never again found the
corridor that leads to the third level at Grand Central Station, although I’ve tried often enough.

Question: Why did Charley buy old – style currency?
A) It was his hobby to collect old style bills
B) He did not want to keep his money in the bank
C) He did not want to pay any more premium for money exchange
D) He wished to go to Galesburg to lead a peaceful life
Answer: d

Question: Why was Charley’s psychiatrist friend worried?
A) He feared that Charley has developed some psychological problem
B) Because Charley had withdrawn all his savings from bank
C) Because he was contented with less than 200 exchanging 300 dollars
D) All of the above
Answer: d

Question: Why did Charley not care for getting less amount in exchanging his entire savings?
A) Things would be cheaper in 1894 Galesburg
B) He had the intention to lead a peaceful life in Galesburg
C) Only A is correct, B is wrong
D) Both A & B are correct
Answer: c

Question: How much premium did Charley pay while exchanging 300 dollars?
A) Almost hundred dollars
B) Less than two hundred dollars
C) Almost all the money he had
D) All of the above
Answer: a

2. Have you ever been there? It’s a wonderful town still, with big old frame houses,
huge lawns, and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets.
And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long, and people sat out on their lawns,
the men smoking cigars and talking quietly, the women waving palm-leaf fans, with
the fire-flies all around, in a peaceful worlD) To be back there with the First World
War still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future… I wanted
two tickets for that.

Question: Who do ‘you’ refer to?
A) Sam
B) Louisa
C) Nobody in particular
D) the reader
Answer: c

Question: Choose the option that best describes the society that is presented in the above extract:
A) content and peace loving
B) leisurely and sentimental
C) orthodox and upper class
D) comfortable and ancient
Answer: c

Question: “tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets” is NOT an example of:
1. imagery
2. metaphor
3. alliteration
4. anachronism
A) option 1 and 2
B) option 1 and 3
C) option 2 and 3
D) option 2 and 4
Answer: d

Question: Charley wanted two tickets as he wanted
A) to go and come back
B) to travel along with his wife
C) to travel along with Sam
D) to send Sam and Louisa off
Answer: b

3. Then I looked around and saw that everyone in the station was dressed like eighteenninety- something; I never saw so many beards, sideburns and fancy mustaches in my life. A woman walked in through the train gate; she wore a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves and skirts to the top of her high-buttoned shoes. Back of her, out on the tracks, I caught a glimpse of a locomotive, a very small Currier & Ives locomotive with a funnel-shaped stack. And then I knew. To make sure, I walked over to a newsboy and glanced at the stack of papers at his feet. It was The World; and The World hasn’t been published for years. The lead story said something about President ClevelanD) I’ve found that front page since, in the Public Library files, and it was printed June 11, 1894.

Question: Where did Charley find himself?
(A) In Galesburg, a peaceful world
(B) At New Haven and Hartford railroads
(C) At New York Central
(D) At the Third Level of Grand Central Station
Answer: d

Question: How was Charley sure that he was in another level, not in the second level?
(A) He noticed differences in the dress of the people there
(B) He saw an old-fashioned engine
(C) He found everything in the station like of eighteen-ninety- something
(D) All of the above
Answer: d

Question: What is a locomotive?
(A) An old-fashioned train
(B) A Ticket Counter
(C) An engine that pulls the train
(D) All of the above
Answer: c

Question: How did Charley make sure that he had gone to the time of 1894?
(A) He went to Public Library to confirm his time travel
(B) He noticed the date on the Newspaper, The World
(C) He confirmed it by asking a newsboy
(D) Both A & C are correct.
Answer: d