Students of class 12 English should refer to MCQs Class 12 English The Third Level with answers provided here which is an important chapter in Class 12 English NCERT textbook. These Multiple Choice Questions have been prepared based on the latest CBSE and NCERT syllabus for Class 12 English. The following MCQs can help you to practice and get better marks in the upcoming class 12 english examination

Question. 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 these

Question. What did Charley want to escape from?
A) insecurity
B) worries
C) war
D) All of the above

Question. Charley’s 300 dollars bought less than …….. hundred in old style bills.
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

Question. What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
A) It represents a utopian worlD)
B) It stands for the past.
C) Charley’s grandfather lived there.
D) All of the above

Question. Where does Charley want to go?
A) America
B) Germany
C) Galesburg
D) New York

Question. Who is the author of the lesson ‘The Third Level’?
A) Tishani Doshi
B) Kalki
C) Pearl S. Buck
D) Jack Finney

Question. Who did Sam write the letter to in ‘The Third Level?
A) a doctor
B) a friend
C) Charley
D) None of the above

Question. What does Sam’s letter to Charley represent?
A) A blend
B) an acceptance to visit
C) a proof of his fantasy
D) a blend of reality with fantasy

Question. What is ‘Waking dream wish fulfilment” according to the psychiatrist in the lesson?
A) Charley finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station and realization of his wish to visit Galesburg Illinois
B) Charley’s dream
C) Charley’s escapism from realities
D) None

Question. What is first day cover?
A) It’s a stamp issued on the first day of the year.
B) It’s a stamp issued in the name of the first citizen of a country.
C) An envelope bearing a stamp postmarked on the day of its issue.
D) An envelope issued on the first day of the year.

Question. What is the theme of the lesson “The Third Level”?
A) Human tendency of escapism
B) Time travel
C) Psychological issues
D) Journey to Galesburg, Illinois

Question. Who is Sam in the lesson “The Third Level”?
A) A coin dealer
B) A friend
C) President of the Grand Central Station
D) A psychiatrist and Charley’s friend

Question. What are the author’s best known works?
A) Science fiction and thrillers
B) Science and history fiction
C) Science fiction and nature
D) English and Science fiction

Question. Where did Charley find the third level?
A) At New York Central
B) At Grand Central Station
C In Galesburg
D) At Vanderbilt Avenue

Question. What convinced Charley that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and not the second level?
A) newspaper with a date June 11, 1894
B) beards and moustaches of 1894
C) A different world of gas lights and brass spittoons
D) All of these

Question. What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
A) Beards
B) Moustaches
C) Shirt
D) The corridor that led him into the past.

Question. What is the meaning of ‘Waking dream wish fulfilment”?
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 present

Question. 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

Question. What was the date on the newspaper that Charley saw on the third level?
A) June 11
B) June 10
C) June 12
D) June 13

Question. What is the term used for ‘the study/collection of postage stamps’?
A) Philately
B) Fantasy
C) Philanthropy
D) None of the above

Question. Why did Charley take the subway from Grand Central Station when he was in a hurry to get uptown to his apartment?
A) Because it’s faster than the bus
B) Because he wanted to go through third level
C) Because he wanted to catch the train
D) All of the above

Question. Why did Charley feel that he was in the third level and not in second level at the Grand Central Station?
A) Because the rooms were smaller with fewer ticket windows & train gates
B) Because the information booth was wood& old-looking with open flame gaslights
C) Both A & B are correct
D) Only B is correct, A is wrong

Question. “…Eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894’’ – why did Charley make this statement?
A) He consoled himself when he could get very less old-style currency
B) Because he had only about three hundred dollars in the bank
C) Because the clerk at the ticket counter didn’t accept his money
D) Because Sam bought eight hundred dollars’ worth of old-style currency

Question. “….he certainly can’t go back to his old business.” – What was Sam’s old business?
A) Sam had hay, feed and grain business
B) Sam was an ordinary guy
C) Sam worked in an office
D) Sam was a Psychiatrist

Question. Why did Charley wish to go to Galesburg of 1894?
A) Because his friend Sam Weiner had gone there
B) Because Galesburg in 1894 was a peaceful world
C) Because his hobby was collecting first day covers
D) Because he wanted to get home to Louisa, his wife

Question. 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

Question. What convinced Charley that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and not the second level?
A)A different world of gas lights and brass spittoons
B) beards and moustaches of 1894
C) newspaper with a date June 11, 1894
D) All of these

Question. How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?
A) For Charley’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level
B) it represents imagination
C) imagination takes place at Grand Central station
D) None

Question. 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

True False Questions

Question. Stamp collector mail the envelope to themselves on the first day of the sale. (T/F)

Question. Charley thought that Grand Central was growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors and stair cases like roots. (T/F)

Question. President Garfield was fond of collecting stamp. (T/F)

Question. Charley is suffering from mental sickness and he is hallucinating. (T/F)

Question. Charley was a thirty-one years old ordinary guy who experienced the third level to escape from the world of insecurities, fear, war & worry.

Question. Third Level is just a medium for escape so Charley is not only lingering but has also entered into the world of fantasy and romance. (T/F)

Question. In reality the Third Level was not the creation of Charley’s own mind. (T/F)

Question. The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress. All these can be overcome through meditation and deserving ways to the welfare of mankind. (T/F)

Question. Charley had never seen so many beards, sideburns and fancy mustaches in his life, before he experienced the third level.

Question. Charley wanted to go to Galesburg without the knowledge of his wife Louisa because she was pretty worried when she came to know about it.

Question. ‘The World’ is a Newspaper of modern time that has not been published for many years.

Question. The stamp affixed on the first day cover was a six-cent, dull brown, with a picture of President Garfield.

Question. The narrator was coin collector so he draws three hundred dollar from the bank to buy the currency of 1890. (T/F)

Question. To celebrate Louisa’s birthday Charley took the subway from Grand Central to reach home. (T/F)

Question. The narrator psychiatrist friend says that Charley’s hobby was to collect stamp. (T/F)

Question. Philately was a passion of Charley, his grandfather &President Roosevelt too.

Question. ‘‘That ain’t money, mister,’’ Sam told to Charley when he exchanged his 300 dollars to old style bills.

Question. It was Charley’s grandfather who suggested that his visit to the third level was a waking dream wish fulfillment for him.

Question. Charley’s stamp collecting was a temporary refuge from reality.

Assertion Reason Question

Question. Assertion (A): Sam said it was a walking dream wish fulfilment. 
Reason(R): Sam knew that Charley wanted to escape from the modern world which was full of insecurity, fear, war and worry.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true.

Question. Assertion (A): Charley ran away from the third level.
Reason(R): The clerk at the station found that his notes were fake and he was attempting to fool him.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Sometimes Charley thought that Grand Central was expanding fast just like a tree, pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots.
Reason (R): Charley had realization of his wish to visit Galesburg, Illinois, a peaceful worlD)
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Galesburg in 1894 was a peaceful worlD) There were pleasant &long summer evenings and people had ample of time to sit, gossip and relax.
Reason (R): First World War was still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Charley insists that there are three levels in Grand Central.
Reason (R): He has seen map of third level.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Charley bought old style currency to buy two tickets to Galesburg Illinois.
Reason(R): He wanted to start a business there.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): The clerk refused to accept the money offered by Charley.
Reason (R): He thought the currency was fake.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894.
Reason(R): Cost of living was comparatively less in 1894
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Sam could not go back to psychiatry in 1894.
Reason (R): In the peaceful world none needed a psychiatrist.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A): Charley did not care about paying premium to buy old style currency.
Reason (R): Eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A):Louisa was pretty worried when Charley told her all about third level, and didn’t want him to look for the third level any more.
Reason (R): Charley went back to finding distractions with the help of stamps.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false
D) A is false but R is true

Question. Assertion (A) Charley wanted to go to Galesburg Illinois.
Reason(R) He had heard many wonderful stories about Galesburg from his grandfather.
A) Both, A and R, are true and R is the correct explanation of A)
B) Both, A and R, are true but R is not the correct explanation of A)
C) A is true but R is false.
D) A is false but R is true

Source Based Question

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.

Question. Who is the psychiatrist friend of ‘I’?
A) Jack
B) Galesburg
C) Sam
D) Charley

Question. How did his psychiatrist friend diagnose his problem?
A) sleeplessness
B) anxiety
C) waking dream wish fulfilment
D) both a and b

Question. 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)

Question. 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.

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 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)

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

Question. 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.

Question. 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

Question. 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

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

Question. 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

Question. Choose the synonym of the word “EMPTY”.
A) Vacuous
B) Hollow
C) Vacant
D) All of these

Question. 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

Question. “Flight of stairs” is ____________ noun.
A) Proper
B) Common
C) Collective
D) None of these

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.

Question. 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

Question. 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

Question. The word ‘bumping’ means the same as:
A) omitting
B) colliding
C) missing
D) skirting

Question. Why does Charley compare the station’s growth to a tree?
A) it has many corridors and staircases
B) because of its consistent extension
C) it is an underground station
D) it is very huge