THE THIRD LEVEL

Read the lines from the chapter and answer the questions that follow:

1. 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.

Q1. What is Third Level?

Q2. Where is the third level and which country?

Q3. What do you mean by ‘waking dream wish fulfilment’?

Q4.Who was unhappy?

O5. What was the reaction of the speaker’s wife on

listening that he was unhappy?

2. I was wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw hat

with a fancy band; I passed a dozen men who
looked just like me. And I wasn’t trying to escape
from anything; I just wanted to get home to Louisa,
my wife.

Q1.Who is describing his attire in the lines above?

Q2. Where was the speaker?

Q3. Why does the speaker say he doesn’t want to

escape?

3. 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.
Q1. Why does the speaker opine that grand central is pushing out new corridors and
staircases like roots?
Q2.Why does the speaker not tell his idea about grand central to anyone?
Q3.Who is the speaker?
4. 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.
Q1. Where was the speaker going?
Q2. Pick one collective noun.
Q3.What changes he observed in the Third Level?
Q4. What was the man in the booth wearing?

5. 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!
Q1. Who is telling the above lines and to whom?
Q2. Why did the speaker believe that Charley was right?
Q3. For how long had the speaker spent his time in the Third Level?
Q4. What did the speaker wish from Charley?