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11 THE THRID LEVEL

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. What convinced Charley that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and
not the second level?
A. newspaper with a date June 11, 1894
B. beards and moustaches of 1894
C. A different world of gas lights and brass spittoons
D. All of these
2. What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
A. Beards
B. Moustaches
C. Shirt
D. The corridor that led him into the past.
3. What is the term used for ‘the study/collection of postage stamps’?
A. Philately
B. Fantasy
C. Philanthropy
D. None of the above
4. What did Charley see at the Third Level?
A. flickering gas lights and people with funny moustaches
B. brass spittoons
C. men wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw
D. All these
What did Charley want to escape from?
5.
A. insecurity
B. worries
C. war
D. All of the above
6. Who did Sam write the letter to in ‘The Third Level?
A. a doctor
B. a friend
C. Charley
D. None of the above

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7. What does Sam’s letter to Charley represent?
A. A blend
B. an acceptance to visit
C. a proof of his fantasy
D. a blend of reality with fantasy
8. What is ‘Waking dream wish fulfilment” according to the psychiatrist in the lesson?
A. Charley finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station and realization of his wish to
visit Galesburg Illinois
B. Charley’s dream
C) Charley’s escapism from realities
D) None
9. What is the meaning of ‘Waking dream wish fulfilment”?
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
10. 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
11. What was the date on the newspaper that Charley saw on the third level?
A. June 11
B. June 10
C. June 12
D. June 13
12. What is first day cover?
A. It’s a stamp issued on the first day of the year.
B. It’s a stamp issued in the name of the first citizen of a country.
C. An envelope bearing a stamp postmarked on the day of its issue.
D. An envelope issued on the first day of the year.
13. What is the theme of the lesson “The Third Level”?
A. Human tendency of escapism
B. Time travel
C. Psychological issues
D. Journey to Galesburg, Illinois
14. Who is Sam in the lesson “The Third Level”?

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 A. A coin dealer
B. A friend
C. President of the Grand Central Station
D. A psychiatrist and Charley’s friend
15. What are the author’s best known works?
A. Science fiction and thrillers
B. Science and history fiction
C. Science fiction and nature
D. English and Science fiction
16. Charley’s 300 dollars bought less than …….. hundred in old style bills.
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
17. What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
A. It represents a utopian world.
B. It stands for the past.
C. Charley’s grandfather lived there.
D. All of the above
18. Where does Charley want to go?
A. America
B. Germany
C. Galesburg
D. New York
19. Who is the author of the lesson ‘The Third Level’?
A. Tishani Doshi
B. Kalki
C. Pearl S. Buck
D. Jack Finney
20. Where did Charley find the third level?
A. At New York Central
B. At Grand Central Station
C In Galesburg
D. At Vanderbilt Avenue
21. Why, according to Sam, did Charley experience the third level?
A. Because it was a waking dream wish fulfillment for Charley
B. Because Charley was unhappy
C. Because Charley wanted to escape from the world of insecurity, fear, war & worry
D. All of the above
22. What, according to Charley’s friends, is ‘a temporary refuse from reality’ for him?
A. First day cover

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 B. His Stamp collecting
C. His wish to go to Galesburg
D. Smoking cigars and talking quietly
23. Who had the hobby of Stamp Collecting?
A. Charley
B. Charley’s Grandfather
C. President Roosevelt
D. All of the above
24. Why did Charley take the subway from Grand Central Station when he was in a hurry to
get uptown to his apartment?
A. Because it’s faster than the bus
B) Because he wanted to go through third level
C) Because he wanted to catch the train
D) All of the above
25. Why did Charley feel that he was in the third level and not in second level at the Grand
Central Station?
A) Because the rooms were smaller with fewer ticket windows & train gates
B) Because the information booth was wood& old-looking with open flame gaslights
C) Both A & B are correct
D) Only B is correct, A is wrong
26. “…Eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894’’ – why did Charley make this statement?
A) He consoled himself when he could get very less old-style currency
B)Because he had only about three hundred dollars in the bank
C) Because the clerk at the ticket counter didn’t accept his money
D) Because Sam bought eight hundred dollars’ worth of old-style currency
27. “….he certainly can’t go back to his old business.” - What was Sam’s old business?
A) Sam had hay, feed and grain business
B) Sam was an ordinary guy
C) Sam worked in an office
D) Sam was a Psychiatrist
28. Why did Charley wish to go to Galesburg of 1894?
A) Because his friend Sam Weiner had gone there
B) Because Galesburg in 1894 was a peaceful world
C) Because his hobby was collecting first day covers
D) Because he wanted to get home to Louisa, his wife
29. What was the Third Level?

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 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
30. What convinced Charley 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 moustaches of 1894
C) newspaper with a date June 11, 1894
D) All of these
31. 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
32. Where was Charley often lost?
A) from a train
B) from the footpath while walking back home
C) from an escalator of his office
D) from a subway faster than bus at the Grand Central Station
33. What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
A)Beards and moustaches
B) light stands and brass spittoons
C) attire of people
D) the corridor that led him into the past
34. How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?
A) For Charley’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level
B) it represents imagination
C) imagination takes place at Grand Central station
D) None
35. 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
36. What was Sam invited for according to the letter?
A) for a conference
B) for a tea party
C) for a seminar
D) for a lemonade party
37. How did Charley 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 jet ways
D) in an escalator
38. 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 of these

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39. 1. What was the third level
A. a third tier on the Grand Central
B. third level in the station
C. third storey on the station
D. a figment of imagination
40. Why did narrator want to catch train from the third level?
A. he wanted to visit Galesburg
B. he wanted to meet his grandpa
C. he wanted to have a tour to the calm and serene place
D. he wanted relief from stress and anxiety
41. How did Charley reach “The Third Level”?
A. through a super fast train
B. through subway
C. through entering platform number nine and three quarters
D. through an escalator
42. What specific difference did Charley notice in the third level?
A. everything was weird
B. everything was old styled
C. everything was big
D. everything was small
43. What is the significance of 1894 in the text?
A. it denotes antiquity
B. it was childhood period of the author
C. it was a friend and family time
D. it was a peaceful time
44. Why did Charley visit Sam?
A. to consult the incidence of the third level
B. to invite him for lemonade
C. to invite him to listen to “seeing Nelly Home” in the porch
D. to see his stamp collection
45. From where did Charley turn to Grand Central?
A. Times Square
B. Vanderbilt Avenue

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 C. Danbury
D. Hudson Line
46. Which lobby did Charley come out in, when he got into a mile long tunnel?
A. Roosevelt Hotel
B. Times Square
C. Vanderbilt Avenue
D. Galesburg
47. What did the man in the booth in “The Third Level” wear?
A. green eyeshade and long black sleeve protectors
B. tan gabardine suit
C. derby hat
D. a black four button suit with tiny lapels
48. Why did Charley decide to take sub way from Grand Central Station?
A. He used to take a train from there every day.
B. He wanted to go to Galesburg Illinois.
C. He accidently reached there.
D. He was late so he took a train to reach home fast.
49. Why did Louisa become mad at Charley when Sam diagnosed him as unhappy?
A. She thought her husband was fantasizing.
B. She thought she was the reason for his unhappiness.
C. She thought her husband was an escapist.
D. She thought Sam was misguiding her husband.
50. Why did Charley make a hasty retreat from the Third Level?
A. He came back because he had seen a ghost.
B. He came back hurriedly as he thought he would be arrested.
C. He came back to share his experience with his family.
D. He came back as he was concerned about his wife.
51. Which US president has been mentioned as a philatelist in the story?
A. President Garfield.
B. President Roosevelt
C. President Cleveland
D. President Jackson.
52. Why did Charley compare the Grand Central Station with a tree?
A. The shape of the central station is like that of a tree.
B. Like a tree, the grand central station is very high.
C. Like a tree the grand central station gives shade to its visitors.
D. Like the roots of a tree the grand central station is expanding
53. What business would have Sam established in Galesburg for a living?
A. Practice psychiatry
B. Become a flute player
C. Hay and grain business
D. Farming.
54. Why did Charley visit the Library?
A. To gather more information about the third level.

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 B. To read more books on Time-Travel.
C. To confirm the main story of the newspaper.
D. To find a book he had seen in the third level.
55. What does the time table mention regarding Grand Central Station?
A. That there are three levels
B. That there are two levels
C. That there is only one level
D. None of the above
56. Who had sent that ‘First Day cover and when?
A. Sam’s father
B. Sam’s uncle
C. Sam a psychiatrist in 1894
D. Sam’s friend
57. 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 of these
58. 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 Galesburg
D. To guide him in Galesburg

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 KEY/ANSWER SHEET
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
[Link].1 D. All of these
[Link].2 D. The corridor that led him into the past.
[Link].3 A. Philately
[Link].4 A. flickering gas lights and people with funny moustaches
[Link].5 D. All of the above
[Link].6 C. Charley
[Link].7 D. a blend of reality with fantasy
[Link].8 A. Charley finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station
[Link].9 A. a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
[Link].10 A. funny and clerk refused to accept money because it was currency of
modern times
[Link].11 A. June 11
[Link].12 C. An envelope bearing a stamp postmarked on the day of its issue.
[Link].13 A. Human tendency of escapism
Q. No.14 D. A psychiatrist and Charley’s friend
[Link].15 A. Science fiction and thrillers
[Link].16 B. Two
[Link].17 D. All of the above
[Link].18 C. Galesburg
[Link].19 D. Jack Finney
[Link].20 B. At Grand Central Station
[Link].21 D. All of the above
[Link].22 B. His Stamp collecting
[Link].23 D. All of the above
[Link].24 A. Because it’s faster than the bus
[Link].25 C. Both A & B are correct
[Link].26 A. He consoled himself when he could get very less old-style currency
[Link].27 D. Sam was a Psychiatrist
[Link].28 B. Because Galesburg in 1894 was a peaceful world
[Link].29 C. an imaginary discovery of the narrator’s mind
[Link].30 D. all of these
[Link].31 D. All of these
[Link].32 D. from a subway faster than bus at the Grand Central Station
[Link].33 D. the corridor that led him into the past
[Link].34 A. For Charley’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third
Level
[Link].35 B. Everything was old styled and smaller in size
[Link].36 D. for a lemonade party
[Link].37 A. In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than a bus
[Link].38 D All of these

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 [Link].39 D. a figment of imagination
[Link].40 D. he wanted relief from stress and anxiety
[Link].41 B. through subway
[Link].42 B. everything was old styled
[Link].43 D. It was a peaceful time
[Link].44 A. to consult the incidence of the third level
[Link].45 B. Vanderbilt Avenue
[Link].46 A. Roosevelt Hotel
[Link].47 A. green eyeshade and long black sleeve protectors
[Link].48 D. He was late so he took a train to reach home fast.
[Link].49 B. She thought she was the reason for his unhappiness.
[Link].50 B. He came back hurriedly as he thought he would be arrested.
[Link].51 B. President Roosevelt.
[Link].52 D. Like the roots of a tree the grand central station is expanding.
[Link].53 A. Practice psychiatry.
[Link].54 A. To gather more information about the third level.
[Link].55 B. That there are two levels.
[Link].56 C Sam a psychiatrist in 1894
[Link].57 D All of these
[Link].58 A To consult the incident of Third level incident at Grand Central Station

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