The Third Level MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Lesson 1

 

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“The Third Level” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Vistas Book Lesson 1

The Third Level MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 1, by Jack Finney have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 1 The Third Level from NCERT Vistas book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the The Third Level MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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Class 12 English Vistas The Third Level Lesson 1 Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are a type of objective assessment in which a person is asked to choose one or more correct answers from a list of available options. An MCQ presents a question along with several possible answers.

1- Who is the author of The Third Level?
A) George Orwell
B) Agatha Christie
C) James Joyce
D) Jack Finney

2- What is the meaning of ‘Waking dream wish fulfillment”?
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 past

3- What is the theme of the lesson?
A) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present
B) time travelling into the past to meet the ancestors
C) theory of living in the future
D) the treatment and recovery of a mentally ill person

4- Who was Charley’s wife?
A) Clara
B) Nancy
C) He was a bachelor
D) Louisa

5- What does Sam’s letter to Charley imply?
A) That even Sam wants to escape
B) third level really exists
C) Sam was getting psychological treatment
D) Sam was a friend of Charley’s grandfather

6- What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
A) it was a relevant past because Charley’s grandpa was born then
B) Authors’ parents were alive then
C) Author’s birth year
D) represents a peaceful, romantic era

7- Who was Sam in The Third Level?
A) a veterinary doctor
B) a friend of Louisa
C) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley
D) None of these

8- Why did Charley visit Sam?
A) To consult him about his visit to the third level
B) To invite him to his promotion party
C) to invite him to visit Galesberg
D) To guide him how to travel to Galesberg

9- Does the Third Level really exist at Grand Central Station?
A) Yes
B) no
C) It existed but was demolished later
D) Can’t say

10- What unusual thing does the narrator see at the Grand Central Station?
A) Trees
B) motorcars
C) A third Level
D) All these

11- Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?
A) he had hallucinations
B) he wanted to meet his friends who reportedly went missing from here
C) he wanted to take a break from office
D) As a result of stress and anxiety 

12- What does the Psychiatrist explain to Charley?
A) That he needed a holiday
B) That he would be treated with electric shocks
C) That he needed yoga and mental relief
D) That his stress and anxiety levels were high

13- 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 of these

14- Why was Louisa, Charley’s wife worried?
A) Knowing the incident of Third Level
B) for not getting tickets to Galesburg
C) she disliked Sam’s nature
D) Sam was scaring her that Charley was mad

15- Why does Charley want to visit Galesberg?
A) to escape from the troublesome world
B) to go on adventure trip
C) to see the beautiful landscape
D) to meet his old friends

16- Why do you think the Third Level was an escape for Charley?
A) Because it existed at the third floor of the station
B) Because Sam already knew about it
C) Because he shared its existence with Sam
D) Because it existed only in his fantasy and not in reality

17- What is “First Day Cover”?
A) A new stamp gets the Postmark and date of its release
B) A gift which is sent via post
C) A book cover when a book is released
D) None of these

18- 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

19- Why did Charley want to visit Galesburg, Illinois in 1894?
A) He was born then
B) His grandpa was alive then
C) It was a peaceful world
D) To meet President Cleveland

20- What did Charley find in his stamp collection?
A) old addresses
B) hair styles
C) old letters
D) First day cover

21- What convinced Charley that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and not the second level?
A) The place with gas lights and brass spittoons looked different
B) people had beards and mustaches like they did in 1894
C) newspaper bore the date June 11, 1894
D) All of these

22- Who had sent that First Day cover?
A) Sam’s father
B) Sam’s uncle
C) Sam’s friend
D) Sam, a psychiatrist 

23- Whose signatures were there on the letter?
A) Charley’s wife
B) Charley’s father
C) Sam
D) None of these

24- What did the letter state?
A) That everything is okay
B) that Sam is joining them at Galesburg
C) Third level exists and Charley was advised to keep looking for it
D) None of these

25- What was Sam invited for according to the letter?
A) for a party
B) for a tea party
C) for a bachelor’s party
D) for a lemonade party

26- What does ‘to skin me’ mean?
A) to punish
B) to peel
C) to teach
D) to hurt

27- Charley’s statement – ‘Eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894’ shows-
A. they were expensive
B. they were cheap
C. they were not in demand
D. no one ate eggs

28- Fire flies are a type of ____________
A. Light
B. insect
C. Fire
D. vehicle

29- Which image best describes a suit with tiny lapels?

30- Charley came out in the lobby of ___________ hotel.
A. Raddison
B. Hyatt
C. Roosevelt
D. Not mentioned

31- Why it seemed that Charley was mad?
A. He wanted to escape from reality
B. He discovered a third level at the station
C. He wanted to go to Galesburg of 1894
D. All of these

32- What was Charley’s ‘temporary refuge from reality’?
A. Reading
B. Spending time with Louisa
C. Stamp collection
D. All of these

33- Charley compares the Grand Central Station to a _____
A. flower
B. tree
C. plant
D. ball

34- Which of these is the name of a train?
A. Vanderbilt Avenue
B. Twentieth Century
C. New Haven
D. Grand Central

35- To know that her husband was unhappy, Louisa felt _____
A. unhappy
B. hopeless
C. sad
D. Joyful

36- Did Charley’s friends agree with Sam that everyone wants to escape?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Not mentioned
D. both A and B

37- Why did Charley’s grandfather not need a refuge from reality?
A. It was peaceful then
B. He earned more
C. life was relaxed because he didn’t have kids
D.He was uneducated

38- The man in the information booth wore _______ eyeshades.
A. red
B. blue
C. black
D. green

39- Once Charley got into a mile-long tunnel and came out at ___________
A. Grand Central
B. Roosevelt hotel
C. Vanderbilt Avenue
D. Hartford Railroad

40- The new corridors and staircases at the third level are like ______
A. roots
B. Hair
C. branches
D. All of these

41- The information booth on the third level was made of _____
A. iron
B. wood
C. not mentioned in the story
D. Both A and B

42- The lights at the third level were –
A. bright
B. dim and flickering
C. bright and blinking
D. neon-coloured

43- How did Charley first realize that he was in 1894?
A. the date on the newspaper
B. by looking at a man dressed in old-fashioned manner
C. The clerk rejected his new currency
D. he saw a locomotive with a funnel-shaped stack

44- Identify the two meanings of ‘stack’ as used in the story-
A. a pile, chimney
B. chimney, a pile
C. engine, chimney
D. a pile, engine

45- Who was the President in 1894?
A. Roosevelt
B.Cleveland
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

46- Find one word for – “Trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the street”
A. Canopy
B. Bower
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

47- What is Sam’s full name?
A. Sam Cooper
B. Sam Hooper
C.Sam Weiner
D. None of these

48- How is Sam related to Charley?
A. Friends
B. Doctor, patient
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

49- What is a premium as used in the story?
A. an amount to be paid for a contract of insurance.
B. Something new sold at a higher price
C. An advance booking amount
D. a sum added to an ordinary price or charge

50- The stamp on the first-day cover was of ______
A. 10 cent
B. 1 dollar
C. 6 cent
D. 16 cent

 

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ANSWER KEY

1 D 26 A
2 A 27 B
3 A 28 B
4 D 29 C
5 A 30 C
6 D 31 D
7 C 32 C
8 A 33 B
9 B 34 B
10 C 35 C
11 D 36 B
12 D 37 A
13 D 38 D
14 D 39 B
15 A 40 A
16 D 41 B
17 A 42 B
18 B 43 B
19 C 44 A
20 D 45 B
21 D 46 C
22 D 47 C
23 C 48 C
24 C 49 D
25 D 50 C

 

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