MCQs on The Third Level-CBSE English for Class 12

 MCQs on The Third Level

Q1.How many levels did the Grand Central Station in reality have?

a.   2

b.   3

c.    4

d.   5

Q2.How many levels did Charlie claim to his friend that the Grand Central Station has?

a.   1

b.   2

c.    3

d.   4

Q3.Who is the writer of the Third Level?

a.   John Updike

b.   Kalki

c.    Jack Finney

d.   Pearl S Buck

Q4.What was Charlie's hobby?

a.   Stamp collecting

b.   Singing

c.    Dancing

d.   writing

Q5.What did Charlie's hobby provide him?

a.   Money

b.   Fame

c.    Escape

d.   foodgrains

Q6.Fill in the blank in the line by picking up the correct option given below:

President Roosevelt also did......................

a.   farming

b.   singing

c.    stamp collecting

d.   teaching

 

Q7. What is Charlie's age?

a.   31 years

b.   32 years

c.    42 years

d.   33 years

Q8.What was the narrator's wife's name?

a.   Zareena

b.   Loisa

c.    Lucy

d.   Nancy

Q9. What type of trains leave from the second level?

a.   Metro trains

b.   Suburban trains

c.    Passenger Trains

d.   Superfast

 

Q10.Once the narrator got into a tunnel and came out in an office building 46th out in the lobby of the...........................

a.   Roosevelt Hotel

b.   Biden Hotel

c.    Obama Hotel

d.   King George Hotel

Q11.What does the narrator sometimes think of the Grand Central Station?

a.   Growing like mushroom

b.   Growing like wheat

c.    Growing like Congress Grass

d.   growing like a tree

 

Q12.The narrator Charlie wanted two tickets for ........................

a.   New York

b.   Galesburg Illinois

c.    Boston

d.   Rome

 

Q13.How much money did Charlie draw out of the bank to buy Old style currency?

a.   300 dollars

b.   200 dollars

c.    400 dollars

d.   800 dollars

 

Q14.How many old-style currency bills did the narrator get for 300 dollars?

a.300 dollars in Old style bills

b. 200 dollars in Old style bills

c. 400 dollars in Old style bills

d. 800 dollars in Old style bills

Q15.What was the cost of one dozen eggs in 1894?

a.   13 cents

b.   12 cents

c.    14 cents

d.   23 cents

 

Q16. What is the name of Charlie's friend?

a.   Sam Gainer

b.   Sam Weiner

c.    Sam Fishta

d.   Sam Rishta

 

Q17.Where did Charlie get schooling?

a.   Galesburg

b.   Boston

c.    New York

d.   Germany

 

Q18. To whom was the first-day cover addressed?

a.   Charlie’s friend

b.   Charlie’s grandmother

c.    Charlie’s wife

d.   Charlie's grandfather

 

Q19. What date was marked on the first-day cover addressed to Charlie's grandfather?

a.   July 18, 1894

b.   July 19, 1894

c.    July 20, 1894

d.   July 21, 1894

 

Q20.What was the price of the stamp affixed on the first-day cover sent to Charlie's grandfather?

a.   6 cents

b.   4 cents

c.    5 cents

d.   7 cents

 

Q21.What name was signed on the paper that was taken out from the envelope by Charlie?

a.   Sam

b.   Louisa

c.    John

d.   Fredrick

 

Q22.What is put inside a first-day cover envelope?

a.   A currency note

b.   A blank cheque

c.    A blank paper

d.   A thread

Q23. Whose picture was there on the stamp affixed on the first-day cover that Charlie found?

a.   President Roosevelt

b.   President Obama

c.    President

d.   President Garfield

 

Q24. What amount of money did Sam bring from the stamp and coins Store?

a.   $800 of old-style currency

b.   $900 of old-style currency

c.    $700 of old-style currency

d.   $600 of old style currency

 

Q25. The paper that was found from inside the first-day cover was not blank. It had a note. Whom was it addressed?

a.   Grandfather

b.   Charlie

c.    Sam

d.   Louisa

 

Q26. Who wrote the letter that was lying there inside the envelope opened by Charlie?

a.   Sam

b.   Charlie

c.    Sam

d.   Louisa

 

MCQs on Indigo-Louis Fischer-CBSE English for Class 12

 Multiple Choice Questions of Indigo

1.Who was Rajkumar Shukla?

Ans. A sharecropper

2. Who is the writer of Indigo?

Ans. Louis Fischer

3. Where was the annual convention of the Indian National Congress party being held?

Ans. Lucknow

4. How many delegates were present to attend the annual convention of the Indian National Congress Party?

Ans. 2301

5. From where did Rajkumar Shukla come to meet Gandhiji?

Ans. From Champaran

6. Where did Rajkumar Shukla take Gandhiji to pass the night after reaching Patna?

Ans. at Dr. Rajndra Prasad’s house

7. What did the servants at dr. Rajendra’s house think of Gandhiji?

Ans. As a peasant like Raj Kumar Shukla

8. Why was Gandhiji not allowed by the servants to draw water from the well at Dr. Rajendra Prasad’s house?

Ans. Due to the social evil untouchability or Because the servants did not know Gandhiji

9. Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzzafarpur which was on the way to Champaran?

Ans. Gandhiji wanted to gather(get) more information about the sharecroppers’ problems.

10. To whom did Gandhiji send a telegram?

Ans. to G.B. Kripalani

11. Where had Gandhiji met G. B. Kripalani?

Ans. At Tagore’s Shantiniketan School

12. Where was G. B. Kripalani a professor?

Ans. At Arts College in Muzzaffarpur

13. For how many days did Gandhiji stay at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. For 2 days

14. In whose house did Mahatama Gandhi stay at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. in the home of Professor Malkani

15. Where did Malkani serve as a teacher?

Ans. In a Government School

16. What was an extraordinary thing, according to Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?

Ans. Giving shelter in one’s house to the advocates of ‘home rule’

17. Where was the author born?

Ans. in Philadelphia.

18. Which University was the author a member of?

Ans. at Princeton University
19. Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?

Ans. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

20. Why was Motihari back with peasants?

Ans. Because people from nearby places reached there to support Gandhiji

21. What was Gandhiji’s demand from the British landlords in the beginning?

Ans. To refund 50% of the payment to the farmers

22. How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?

Ans. To refund 25% of the money they had taken

23. Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur about the sharecroppers’ problems?

Ans. Lawyers

24. Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at the Annual Congress party session?

Ans. To complain against the injustice being done to the peasants under the landlord system in Bihar

25. Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo?

Ans. Lieutenant Governor in British administration

26. What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?

Ans. He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
27. Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?

Ans. The fear of the British was removed from the minds of Indian people

28. How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?

Ans. She told the women of the villages about cleanliness.

29.At what time did the train reach Muzaffarpur?

Ans. At Midnight

30. What were Indians in smaller localities afraid of in those days? (Indigo)

Ans.To show sympathy for the advocates of Home Rule

31. For what did Gandhiji chide the lawyers of Muzaffarpur?

Ans. For collecting a big fee

32. What was the chief commercial crop in Champaran?

Ans. Indigo

33. In which country was synthetic indigo developed?

Ans. Germany

34. Which place was Gandhiji advised leaving at once?

Ans. Tirhut