12th Eng.Ch-1 The Third Level Solved extracts

Ch-1 Third Level by Jack Finney

Extract Based Questions

Directions:

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

Extract -1

‘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. And the man in the booth wore a green eyeshade and long black sleeve protectors. The lights were dim and sort of flickering. Then I saw why; they were open-flame gaslights.

(a) What is an eyeshade ?

(i) Visor (ii) Hat (iii) Eye shadow

(iv) None of these

(b) What is termed as 'flickering'?

(i) Move back and forth rapidly

(ii) Shine unsteadily

(iii) Flash intermittently

(iv) All of these

( c) What is being narrated by Charley in the above lines?

(i) The First Level

(ii) The third level

(iii) The Second Level

(iv) None of these

(d)What did Charley find when entered to the third level?

Answer

Ans. (a) (i) Visor (b) (iv) All of these

( c)(ii) The Third Level

(d)According to Charley, when he entered the third level, he saw the people wearing old fashioned dresses, an old locomotive, newspaper dated June 11, 1894.

Extract -2

The clerk figured the fare- he glanced at my fancy hat band, but he figured the fare and I had enough for two coach tickets, one way. But when I counted out the money and looked up, the clerk was staring at me. He nodded at the bills. "That ain't money, mister," he said, "and if you're trying to skin me, you won't get very far," and he glanced at the cash drawer, beside him. Of course the money was old-style bills half again as big as the money we use nowadays and different looking.

(a) Why did Charley ask for two tickets?

(b) Complete the sentence by choosing the correct option:

When Charley offered money to the booking clerk, the latter stared at Charley because the booking clerk:

(i) thought it wasn't money.

(ii) did not trust Charley.

(iii) thought Charley was trying to tease him.

(iv) thought that Charley had given him less money.

(i) a cheat (ii) gullible

(iii) an opportunist (iv) an escapist

(d) 'If you're trying to skin me' suggests…….

Answer

a) Charley asked for two tickets because he wanted to go to Galesburg, Illinois with his wife Louisa.

(b) (i) thought it wasn't money.

(d) that the clerk thought about Charley to be a cheat and said that if he dared to cheat, he would be caught very soon.

Extract -3

To make sure, I walked over the 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 turned toward the ticket windows knowing that here on the third level at Grand Central - I could buy tickets that would take Louisa and me anywhere in the United States we wanted to go. In the year 1894. And I wanted two tickets to Galesburg, Illinois.

(a) The newspaper that covered the lead story about President Cleveland was:

(i) The Pioneer (ii) The New York Times

(iii) The World (iv) The Times

(b) The narrator wanted to buy tickets to……..

(i) Glance (ii) Peek (iii) Ignore (iv) Examine

(d) Charley wanted two tickets because he wanted to go with:

(i) Sam (ii) Cleveland (iii) Louisa

(iv) the Psychiatrist

Answer

(a) (iii) The World

(b) Galesburg. Illinois,

( c) (i) glance

(d) (iii) Louisa

Extract -4

941 Willard Street

Galesburg, Illinois

July 18, 1894

Charley

I got to wishing that you were right. Then I got to believing you were right. And, Charley, it's true; I found the third level! I've been here two weeks, and right now, down the street at the Daly's, someone is playing a piano, and they're all

out on the front porch singing 'Seeing Nelly Home'. And I'm invited over for lemonade. Come on back, Charley and Louisa. Keep looking till you find the third level! It's worth it, believe me!

The note is signed Sam.

(a) What was the feeling of Sam as conveyed in the letter? Choose the appropriate option in the context of the extract.

(i) Surprise (ii) Doubt

(iii) Excitement (iv) Anger

(b) What was Sam Weiner's reaction when Charley told him about the third level?

(i) Dismissal (ii) Acceptance

(iii) Wonderstruck (iv) Puzzled

I. Sam is relaxed

II. Charley had migrated with Louisa

III. The existence of the third level

IV. Sam had met Charley's grandfather

Choose the most appropriate option:

(i) I and II (ii) II and IV

(iii) I and III (iv) IV only

(d) Sam wrote the letter to Charley in order to………

Answers

(a) (iii) Excitement

(b) (i) Dismissal

(d) tell him that the existence of the third level was a tree. Sam wanted Charley and Louisa to join him and wanted them to keep looking for the third level till they found it.

Extract -5

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.

(a) Where is probably a long tunnel?

(b) Who got into the tunnel?

(i) A friend of the narrator

(ii) The narrator himself

(iii) Both the narrator and his friend

(iv) None of the above

(d) Who is 'l' in the last sentence?

Answer

(a) A long tunnel is probably at the Grand Central Station.

(b) (ii) The narrator himself

(d) Charley is 'l' in the last sentence.

Ch-1 The Third Level Extracts