Ch.

11 THE THRID LEVEL

SOURCE BASED QUESTIONS
1. I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I
told him about the third level at Grand Central station, and he said it was a waking
dream wish fulfilment. He said I was
unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained he meant the modern
world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to
escape.
(i) Who is the psychiatrist friend of ‘I’?
A. Jack
B. Galesburg
C. Sam
D. Charley
(ii) How did his psychiatrist friend diagnose his problem?
A. sleeplessness
B. anxiety
C. waking dream wish fulfilment
D. both a and b
(iii) Why did the psychiatrist’s analysis made Louisa lose her temper?
A. he had analysed that Charley was unhappy.
B. he had analysed that Charley was a prince.
C. he had analysed that Charley had become mad.
D. he had not shared his analysis report with Louisa.
(iv) How did psychiatrist explain the problem of ‘I’ and appease Louisa?
A. he was trying to escape his fears and frustrations.
B. he was trying to lead a happy life.
C. he was trying to become sufficiently rich.
D. he was trying to guide him.

2. That night, among my oldest first-day covers, I found one

that shouldn’t have been there. But there it was. It was there
because someone had mailed it to my grandfather at his home
in Galesburg; that’s what the address on the envelope said.

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 (i) What did ‘I’ find one night?
A. a strange coin
B. a strange stamp
C. a strange cover
D. a strange butterfly
(ii) What is first-day cover?
A. coins bought on the first day of sale
B. envelopes mailed with stamps, on the first day of their sale
C. coins purchased that day
D. stamps purchased that day
(iii) Who had mailed the letter to ‘I’?
A. Sam
B. Charley
C. Jim
D. Louisa
(iv) Which date and picture did the envelope carry?
A. President George Washington
B. President Winston Churchill
C. President Garfield
D. President Donald Trump
3. Then I looked around and saw that everyone in the station was dressed like eighteen-
ninety-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.
(i) 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

(ii) 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
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 (C) He found everything in the station like of eighteen-ninety- something
(D) All of the above

(iii) 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

(iv) 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.

4. 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.
(i) 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

(ii) 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

(iii) 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

(iv) 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
5. Sometimes I think Grand Central is growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors
and staircases like roots. There’s probably a long tunnel that nobody knows about
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 feeling its way under the city right now, on its way to Times Square, and may be
another to Central Park. And maybe – because for so many people through the years
Grand Central has been an exit, a way of escape – maybe that’s how the tunnel I got
into …But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

(i) From the extract it can be inferred that Charley was a/an ………….. person.
A. Philosophical
B. imaginative
C. witty
D. compassionate

(ii) Infer why the Grand Central was an exit and escape for many people through the
years. Choose an option.
A. because people leave and return to the city through this train station
B. because people enter New York through the Grand Central
C. because travel by itself is a way to escape the grind of life
D. because of the beauty and grandeur of the Grand Central Station.

(iii) What can be inferred by the ‘tunnel’ from this extract

A. a gateway into the past
B. a portal into another planet
C. a gateway into the future
D. a portal into an alien world

(iv) Why didn’t Charley tell his psychiatrist friend’s this idea ?
A. He was afraid that his job would be at stake if he shared these thoughts
B. He was afraid that his friend would not approve of his imagination
C. He was afraid that his wife would not like these thoughts
D. He was afraid that his psychiatrist friend would find this interesting

6. Sometimes I think Grand Central is growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors
and staircases like roots. There’s probably a long tunnel that nobody knows about
feeling its way under the city right now, on its way to Times Square, and maybe
another to Central Park. And maybe — because for so many people through the years
Grand Central has been an exit, a way of escape — maybe that’s how the tunnel I got
into... But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that
i. Why did charley think that Grand Central was growing like a tree?
A. it had lot of tree on it
B. it had a tree like structure
C. it was blossoming with new trains
D. it had a lot of corridors and staircases

ii. Identify the figure of speech used in “pushing out new corridors and staircases like
roots.”
A. personification

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 B. metaphor
C. simile
D. imagery

iii. Why did nobody know about the long tunnel?

A. it was a secret tunnel
B. it did not exist
C. no one cared about it
D. it led to some forbidden place

iv. What was the speaker’s feeling when he described the Grand Central?
A. he was anxious
B. he was upset
C. he was fascinated
D. he was shocked

7. 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.

i. Who do ‘you’ refer to?

A. Sam
B. Louisa
C. Nobody in particular
D. the reader
ii. 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

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 D. comfortable and ancient
iii. “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

iv. 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
8. Then I walked down another flight to the second level, where the suburban trains
leave from, ducked into an arched doorway heading for the subway — and got lost.
That’s easy to do. I’ve been in and out of Grand Central hundreds of times, but I’m
always bumping into new doorways and stairs and corridors. Once I got into a tunnel
about a mile long and came out in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel. Another time I
came up in an office building on Forty-sixth Street, three blocks away. Sometimes I
think Grand Central is growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors and staircases
like roots.

i) Where did Charley get lost?

A) on the third level
B) after heading for the subway
C) on the arched doorway
D) on the suburban train station
ii) Charley’s statement ‘That’s easy to do’ means:
A) it is easy to get lost in the third level
B) it is easy to reach the second level
C) it is easy to enter and exit the Grand Central
D) it is easy to get lost in the Grand Central
iii) The word ‘bumping’ means the same as:
A) omitting
B) colliding
C) missing
D) skirting
iv) Why does Charley compare the station’s growth to a tree?

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 A) it has many corridors and staircases
B) because of its consistent extension
C) it is an underground station
D) it is very huge
9. 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.
i) Who is speaking to whom in the given extract?
A) Charley to Louisa.
B) Charley to the reader.
C) Sam to Charley.
D) Charley to Sam.

ii) The given extract is NOT an example of

A) Analogy.
B) Metaphor.
C) Imagery.
D Allegory.

iii) Men smoking cigars and women waving palm-leaf‖ refers to a society
A) Orthodox
B) Conservative
C) Liberal
D) Modern

iv) Which word from the extract is an antonym of small?

A) Huge
B) Tremendous
C) Long
D) Both A and B

10. That night, among my oldest first-day covers, I found one that shouldn’t have been
there. But there it was. It was there because someone had mailed it to my grandfather
at his home in Galesburg; that’s what the address on the envelope said. And it had
been there since July 18, 1894— the postmark showed that — yet I didn’t remember
it at all. The stamp was a six-cent, dull brown, with a picture of President Garfield.
Naturally, when the envelope came to Granddad in the mail, it went right into his
collection and stayed there — till I took it out and opened it.

(i) What is First Day Cover?

A) Envelope with a blank paper

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 B) Envelope with a written paper
C) Envelope with no stamp
D) Just an envelope
(ii) Who had mailed the first day cover to Charley’s grandfather according to the
speaker
A) Charley’s father
B) Charley’s grandfather
C) Sam
D) Charley’s mother
(iii) Where is the first day cover mailed to?
A) to oneself
B) to others
C) Neither to oneself not others
D) Sam’s father
(iv) What proves the date on the first day cover?
A) Ticket examiner
B) postman
C) Stamp seller
D) postmark
11. But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea. The corridor I was in began
angling left and slanting downward and I thought that was wrong, but I kept on
walking. All I could hear was the empty sound of my own footsteps and I didn’t pass
a soul. Then I heard that sort of hollow roar ahead that means open space and people
talking. The tunnel turned sharp left; I went down a short flight of stairs and came out
on the third level at Grand Central Station. For just a moment I thought I was back on
the second level, but I saw the room was smaller, there were fewer ticket windows
and train gates, and the information booth in the centre was wood and old-looking
(i) What does pass a soul mean?

A) that nobody was there

B) that he was with people
C) that everybody was there
D) that there were many souls

(ii) Choose the synonym of the word “EMPTY”.

A) Vacuous
B) Hollow
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 C) Vacant
D) All of these

(iii) Why did Charley not tell anything to his psychiatrist friend?
A) Because his psychiatrist would have gone to Galesburg
B) Because his psychiatrist would have rejected his claims
C) Because his psychiatrist would have told everything to Louisa
D) None of these

(iv) “Flight of stairs” is ____________ noun.

A) Proper
B) Common
C) Collective
D) None of these

ANSWER

Q. No. ANSWERS
1. i) C. Sam
ii) C. waking dream wish fulfilment
iii) A. he had analysed that Charley was unhappy.
iv) A. he was trying to escape his fears and frustrations
2. i) C. a strange cover
ii) B. envelopes mailed with stamps, on the first day of their sale
iii) A. Sam
iv) C. President Garfield

3. i) D. At the Third Level of Grand Central Station

ii) D. All of the above
iii) C. An engine that pulls the train
iv) B. He noticed the date on the Newspaper, The World
4. i) D. He wished to go to Galesburg to lead a peaceful life
ii) D. All of the above
iii) D. Both A & B are correct
iv) A. Almost hundred dollars
5. i) B. imaginative
ii) C. because of the beauty and grandeur of the Grand Central Station.
iii) A. a gateway into the past
iv) B. He was afraid that his friend would not approve of his imagination
6. i) D. it had a lot of corridors and staircases
C. Simile
ii)
B. It did not exist
iii)
C. he was fascinated
iv)

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7. i) C. Nobody in particular
C. orthodox and upper class
ii)
D. option 2 and 4
iii)
B. to travel along with his wife
iv)

8. i) B) after heading for the subway

ii) D) it is easy to get lost in the Grand Central
iii) B) colliding
iv) B) because of its consistent extension

9. i) B) Charley to the reader.

ii) D) Allegory.
iii) A) Orthodox
iv) D) Both A and B

10 i) A) Envelope with a blank paper

C) Sam
ii)
iii) A) to oneself
D) postmark
iv)
11 i) A) that nobody was there
ii) D) All of these
iii) B) Because his psychiatrist would have rejected his claims
iv) C) Collective

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