Chapter 1 The Third Level

Grade:12

Question 1.
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) funny and clerk refused to accept money because it was currency of modern times

Question 2.
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 worth seeing place
(d) None

Answer: (c) Third level do exist and Charle was advised to keep looking at this worth seeing place

Question 3.
Who had sent that ‘First Day cover and when?
(a) Sam’s father
(b) Sam’s uncle
(c) Sam’s friend
(d) Sam a psychiatrist in 1894

Answer: (d) Sam a psychiatrist in 1894

Question 4.
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) All of these

Question 5.
Where was Charley often lost?
(a) from a train
(b) from the footpath
(c) from an escalator
(d) from a subway faster than bus at The Central Station
Answer: (d) from a subway faster than bus at The Central Station

Question 6.
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: (c) into an arched door heading for subway

Question 7.
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) NonAnswer: (a) For Charle’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level

Question 8.
Why do you think the Third Level was an escape for Charley?
(a) Because it existed at the third story
(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) Because it existed only in his fantasy and not in reality

Question 9.
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) Knowing the incident of Third Level

Question 10.
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) an imaginary discovery of the narrator’s min

Question 11.
What does the Psychiatrist explain to Charlie?
(a) Third level is a beautiful place
(b) Third level is worth seeing
(c) Third level is well maintained
(d) That it was the result of stress and anxiety of his mind

Answer: (d) That it was the result of stress and anxiety of his mind

Question 12.
What unusual thing the narrator sees at the Grand Central Sation?
(a) Trees
(b) motorcars
(c) Third Level
(d) All these

Answer: (c) Third Level

Question 13.
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) To consult the incident of Third level incident at Grand Central Statio

Question 14.
What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
(a) it was past
(b) Authors’ parents were alive
(c) Author’s childhood time
(d) representing a peaceful, romantic living time

Answer: (d) representing a peaceful, romantic living time

Question 15.
What is Sam’s letter testimony to in the lesson proving?
(a) his acceptance to travel
(b) his refusal to travel
(c) Sam accompanying Charles
(d) Charles’ tendency of escapism from the realities
Answer: (d) Charles’ tendency of escapism from the realities

Question 16.
Who was Charles’ wife?
(a) a woman
(b) a woman with bright top
(c) A woman at The Third Level
(d) Louisa

Answer: (d) Louisa

Question 17.
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) a human tendency to escape from the harsh realities of the present to past happy times

Question 18.
What is the theme of the lesson?
(a) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present
(b) time travelling
(c) theory of escapism
(d) a dialogue between a patient and a psychiatrist

Answer: (a) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present

Question 19.
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) Science fiction and thrillers

Question 20.
What was Jack’s full name?
(a) Walter Braden Jack Finey
(b) Stephen Jone Jack
 (c) Ray Douglas Bradbury
(d) None

Answer: (d) None

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The Third Level Extra Questions and Answers Important Questions Class 12 English Vistas

June 20, 2020 by Prasanna

Here we are providing The Third Level Extra Questions and Answers Important Questions Class
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teachers. In this article, we are explained how did charley reach the third level

The Third Level Extra Questions and Answers Important Questions Class 12 English Vistas

The Third Level Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type

Question 1.
What was the psychiatrist’s reaction when Charley told him about ‘The Third Level’?
Answer:
The psychiatrist told him that it was a walking-dream wish fulfillment. He also told that Charley
was unhappy.

Question 2.
What is the world filled up with?
Answer:
The world is filled up with insecurity, fear,war .worry and a lot of tensions. On the other hand,
there is joy, satisfaction, security and positivity in the world also.

Question 3.
What, according to the author is ‘Stamp Collecting ?
Answer:
According to the author, stamp collecting is a ‘temporary refuge from reality’. Its an escapement
from worldly worries.

Question 4.
What happened with Charley at Grand Central Station?
Answer:
At Grand Central Station, Charley entered into a subway to get the train to his home but he was
misdirected and entered into an another way that was, according to him ‘The Third Level’.

Question 5.
What did Charley find there?
Answer:
At the third level, Charley saw the people wearing old-fashiond dress, an old locomotive,
newspaper dated June 11, 1894, brass spittoons, flickering gas same lights and many other
things related to that century.

Question 6.
What do you understand by escapement?
Answer:
Escapement, in this sense means the saving of oneself from worldly worries like insecurity, fear,
war, worry and a lot.

Question 7.
I’ve taken the obvious step’. Explain.
Answer:
Nobody believed on Charley’s statement about ‘The Third Level’. His wife was alarmed and
brought him to the psychiatrist. Charley himself needed to meet the psychiatrist. It was an
‘obvious step’.

Question 8.
What was Charley’s vision about Galesburg town?
Answer:
Charley thought that Galesburg was still a wonderful town. In that century in 1894, people used
to sit on their lawns, having sufficient time to talk to each other, smoking cigars, women waving
palm-leaf fans in very long summer evenings, overall, it was a peaceful and friendly place.

Question 9.
Why did Charley return from the third level?
Answer:
With the wings of imagination, Charley returned to collect enough money to buy two tickets to
Galesburg town for himself and his wife Louisa. (As the clerk was not accepting the currency
which Charley was having related to the modem world.)

Question 10.
When and how did Charley find the letter of Sam?
Answer:
One night, while fussing with his stamp collection, Charley found, among his oldest first-day
covers, the letter of Sam with a six-cent stamp mailed to his Granddad earlier into his collection.

Question 11.
How much old currency did Sam buy?
Answer:
Sam bought the old currency worth eight hundred dollars.

Question 12.
What business did Sam want to do?
Answer:
Sam wanted to do the business of hay, feed and grain.

Question 13.
What did the ticket clerk say to Charley?
Answer:
The ticket-clerk scolded Charley that that was not the real currency which he was having.
Additionally, he warned Charley that if he was trying to skin him, he would not go very far. He
would be prisoned.
Question 14.
‘But now we are both looking….’ What does this refer to? Explain.
Answer:
The above mentioned words were said by Charley as he and his wife Louisa, both every
weekend started to search the third level because they had the proof. Charleys friend Sam was
disappeared. So, they both Charley Louisa were looking for the third level.

Question 15.
What does the third level refer to?
Answer:
The third level refers to the subway of the Grand Central Station in New York. Though this ‘Third
level’ was not present there physically, but Charley claimed it to be present there.

Question 16.
Would Charley ever go back to the ticket- counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg
for himself and his wife?
Answer:
No, Charley would never go back to the ticket-counter on the third level to buy tickets to
Galesburg for himself and his wife because he would never find that third level again possibly.

Question 17.
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Answer:
Yes, The third level was a medium of escape for Charley because he might be unhappy and
fearful form worldly worries. He explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity,
fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and he just wanted to escape from that and this happens
when any person is unable to face and fight such abstract aggressors.

Question 18.
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Answer:
Sam’s letter to Charley proves that Sam has found and reached to the third level. He is staying
there in Galesburg since last two weeks and watching various activities and explains to Charley.
He invites both Charley and his wife Louisa and motivates them . to continue their search of the
third level. So, we can say that Sam was also a victim of worldly worries and seeking the
escapement, like Charley.

Question 19.
“The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress”. What are the ways in which
we attempt to overcome them?
Answer:
No doubt, the modern world is full of insecurity, fear,war worry and stress. And to overcome
them, people start to adopt their own ways. As some people start to imagine and develop their
own unreal world, whereas some people start to use alcoholic products and destroy their lives.
These all ways are just only escapement and not the solution.