The Third Level Extract based questions Class 12th CBSE
NCERT Based Question & Answers:
A. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
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.
1. What is Charley talking about?
A. The third level
B. The second level
C. The first level
D. None of these
Ans. A. The third level
2. Where did Charley want to go?
A. New York
B. Illinois
C. Galesburg
D. Gabba
Ans. C. Galesburg
3. What is an eyeshade?
A. eye shadow
B. Visor
C. Hat
D. None of these
Ans. B. Visor
4. What is ‘flickering’?
A. Flash intermittently
B. Shine unsteadily
C. Move back and forth rapidly
D. All of these
Ans. D. All of these
B. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
A woman walked in through the train gate; she wore a dress with leg. of mutton sleeves and skirts to the top of her high-buttoned shoes. Behind her, out on the tracks, I caught a glimpse of a locomotive, a very small Currier & Ives locomotive with a funnel-shaped stack. And then I knew. To make sure, I walked over to a 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.
1. What was ‘The World’?
A. Magazine
B. Journal
C. Newspaper
D. Book
Ans. C. Newspaper
2. What is a locomotive?
A. Loco
B. Rail road
C. Engine
D. All of these
Ans. D. All of these
3. Where had Charley traveled to?
A. Past
B. Future
C. Present
D. None of these
Ans. A. Past
4. What does the speaker mean by stack of papers?
A. Pile of wastage
B. Pile of stamp papers
C. Pile of papers
D. All of these
Ans. C. Pile of papers
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C. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
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. 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 into…. escape maybe that’s how I got into the tunnel.
1. Which literary device has been used in ‘Grand Central Station growing like a tree’
A. Alliteration
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Personification
Ans. C. Simile
2. What does the narrator mean by ‘Grand Central has been an exit”?
A. People get lost in it
B. People want to escape through Grand Central station
C. People need excuses to go to Grand Central station
D. It is the best mode to reach the under-ground tunnel
Ans. B. People want to escape through Grand Central station
3. Why does only Charley get lost at the third level?
A. Because he is practical
B. Because he is an escapist
C. Because he loves to do adventurous things
D. All of these
Ans. B. Because he is an escapist
4. What does the word ‘Bumping’ mean?
A. Collide with force
B. Collide with empathy
C. Collide without any support
D. All of these
Ans. A. Collide with force
