The Third Level MCQs | Class 12 English Vistas Chapter 1 Quiz with Answers & Leaderboard

Welcome to the Class 12 English Chapter 1: The Third Level MCQ Quiz!

This quiz is designed to test your understanding of The Third Level by Jack Finney, a fascinating short story about time travel, escapism, and psychological themes. If you're preparing for your CBSE Class 12 English exam, this quiz will help you revise key concepts, including:

✔️ Summary & Theme of The Third Level
✔️ Character Analysis of Charley & Sam
✔️ Symbolism & Psychological Elements
✔️ CBSE Exam-Oriented MCQs

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The Third Level

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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 idea.

The above extract is NOT an example of ________.

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“tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets” is NOT an example of

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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.

Choose the option that best describes the society represented in the above extract.

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He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that 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. Well, who doesn’t? Everybody I know wants to escape, but they don’t wander down into any third level at Grand Central Station. But that’s the reason, he said, and my friends all agreed. Everything points to it, they claimed.

My stamp collecting, for example; that’s a ‘temporary refuge from reality.’ Well, maybe, but my grandfather didn’t need any refuge from reality.

Why did Sam’s verdict make Charley’s wife ‘mad’?

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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 idea.

The idiom ‘feeling its way’ implies ______ movement.

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Classify (1) to (4) as fact (F) or opinion (O), based on your reading of The Third Level.

  1. First-day covers are never opened.
  2. Grand Central is growing like a tree.
  3. President Roosevelt collected stamps.
  4. Sam was Charley’s psychiatrist.

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What did Sam mean by the phrase 'waking dream wish fulfillment’?

I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment.

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Charley decided not to tell his psychiatrist friend about his idea. Choose the option that reflects the reaction Charley anticipated from his friend.

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Select the option that displays a cause-effect set.

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He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that 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. Well, who doesn’t? Everybody I know wants to escape, but they don’t wander down into any third level at Grand Central Station. But that’s the reason, he said, and my friends all agreed. Everything points to it, they claimed.

My stamp collecting, for example; that’s a ‘temporary refuge from reality.’ Well, maybe, but my grandfather didn’t need any refuge from reality.

Select the option that signifies the condition of people of the ‘modern world’ mentioned in the extract.

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‘The Third Level’ refers to the third level at the Grand Central Station. As a metaphor, which of the following would NOT be an appropriate explanation of the title?

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That night, among my oldest first-day covers, I found one that shouldn’t have been there.

In the story 'The Third Level', the narrator says the above line because he found a letter that __________.

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How would you describe Charley?

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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.

Imagine that the city of Galesburg is hosting a series of conferences and workshops. In which of the following conferences or workshops are you least likely to find the description of Galesburg given in the above extract?

15 / 15

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.

Who does ‘you’ refer to?

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