Question bank-2 The Third Level Class 12

SAQs- 2m

1. What convinced Charley that he had reached the third level at Grand Central
Station and not the second level?
2. How does Charley, the narrator describe the third level at Grand Central Station?
3. How did Charley often get lost on the Grand Central Station?
4. Why did Charley suspect that Sam had gone to Galesburg?
5. How does Charley describe Galesburg as it used to be in 1894?
6. Why did Charley rush back from the third level? (
7. How did Charley reach the third level of Grand Central? How was it different from
the other levels?
8. What kind of people did Charley ‘See’ at the third level?
9. How does Charley make his description of the third level very realistic?

LAQs- 5m

10. Describe the third level as a science fantasy.

-Inputs
- Science makes the impossible possible by giving a touch of realism to things
that simply cannot happen in the real world
-It explains a person’s perceptions, his difficulties and circumstances.
-Science fantasy has an aura of magic. In the lesson ‘The Third Level’ Charley’s
fantasies are magical.
-He travels through time to Galesburg of 1894, the world of his childhood. He is
stressed out by his modern living and takes refuge in his nostalgic memories,
and at times he loses touch with reality. Such time travel is an essential element
of all scientific fantasy.

11. Did Sam really go to Galesburg or was it Charley’s figment of imagination?

Inputs

-symbolizes man’s yearning to attain an ideal level of existence which is free from wars,
worries, insecurities, tensions

-His craving for such a world forced him to imagine things. He imagined that his psychiatrist
friend, Sam, had succeeded in reaching there.

-He even saw a letter from Sam in his first-day cover collection.