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    This document contains 12 multiple choice questions and 8 long answer or textual questions about the short story "The Third Level" by Jack Finney. The questions probe various details from the story like the psychiatrist's view of Charley's stamp collection, Charley's description of himself, why he felt Grand Central Station was growing, his preparations to travel to Galesburg, and how he happened to reach the third level of the station. Long answer questions require descriptions of the third level, the clerk's reaction, themes of the story like imagination and escape from reality, and whether the ending is seen as ironic. Textual questions discuss references to time and space in the story and humanity's relationship to past, present and future.

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    This document contains 12 multiple choice questions and 8 long answer or textual questions about the short story "The Third Level" by Jack Finney. The questions probe various details from the story like the psychiatrist's view of Charley's stamp collection, Charley's description of himself, why he felt Grand Central Station was growing, his preparations to travel to Galesburg, and how he happened to reach the third level of the station. Long answer questions require descriptions of the third level, the clerk's reaction, themes of the story like imagination and escape from reality, and whether the ending is seen as ironic. Textual questions discuss references to time and space in the story and humanity's relationship to past, present and future.

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    The Third Level Questions

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    12 3 36 Ritika Singh
    This document contains 12 multiple choice questions and 8 long answer or textual questions about the short story "The Third Level" by Jack Finney. The questions probe various details from the story like the psychiatrist's view of Charley's stamp collection, Charley's description of himself, why he felt Grand Central Station was growing, his preparations to travel to Galesburg, and how he happened to reach the third level of the station. Long answer questions require descriptions of the third level, the clerk's reaction, themes of the story like imagination and escape from reality, and whether the ending is seen as ironic. Textual questions discuss references to time and space in the story and humanity's relationship to past, present and future.

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    Q 1 What, according to the psychiatrist, was Charley’s problem?

    Q 2. What did the psychiatrist think about Charley’s stamp collection ? Why
    did Charley not agree with him?

    Q 3.How does Charley describe himself?

    Q 4. Why does Charley feel that Grand Central is growing like a tree?

    Q 5. How did Charley make sure that he had actually travelled in the past?

    Q 6. Describe Galesburg, as it existed in the year 1894?

    Q 7 What preparations did Charley make to go to Galesburg?

     
    Q 8 In which context did Charley say, “eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in
    1894”?

    Q 9 What made Louisa, Charley’s wife, believe that the third level was a
    reality?

    Q 10 What is a first day cover?

    Q 11 Who had sent the first day cover and what was written on it?

    Q 12  How did Charley happen to reach the Third Level of Grand Central
    Station, New York?

    LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS


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    Q1. Describe the Grand Central Station at the third level ?

    Q2. What was reaction of the Clerk at the Ticket counter? Why?
    Q3 Imagination is a ‘temporary refuge from reality’ Explain.

    Q4  Elaborate the theme of the story

    Q5, How is the ending of "The Third Level" by Jack Finney ironic?

    Textual Questions
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    1. What does the third level refer to?
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    2. Would Charley ever go back to the ticket-counter on the third level to buy
    tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife?
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    3.. Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley?
    Why?
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    4. What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
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    5. “The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.”  What
    are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
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    6. Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
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    7. Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection?
    Discuss.
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    8. Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is
    done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between
    the past, the present and the future?

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