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निशानों का मतलब: ★ज़रूरी · ★★बहुत ज़रूरी
सेट 1 — Charley और उसका psychiatrist friend (कार्ड 1–10)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★1 | Who tells Jack Finney’s story The Third Level? | Charley tells it himself; he says he is “just an ordinary guy named Charley”. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 2 | How old is Charley? | Thirty-one. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 3 | What is the name of Charley’s wife? | Louisa. Charley wanted to get home to her on the night he reached the third level. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| ★★4 | What do the presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads say about the levels of Grand Central Station? | That there are only two. They “will swear on a stack of timetables” to it. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| ★★5 | How many levels of Grand Central Station does Charley say there are, and why? | Three, because he has been on the third level of Grand Central Station. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| ★★6 | What did Charley’s psychiatrist friend say the third level at Grand Central Station was? | A waking-dream wish fulfillment. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| ★7 | Why did Charley’s psychiatrist friend say Charley was unhappy? | He meant that “the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it”, so Charley just wants to escape. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| ★8 | What do Charley’s friends call his stamp collecting? | A “temporary refuge from reality”. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| 9 | Who started Charley’s stamp collection? | His grandfather. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| 10 | Why does Charley say his grandfather did not need a refuge from reality? | Things were “pretty nice and peaceful in his day”. (पृष्ठ 1) |
सेट 2 — Grand Central और corridor (कार्ड 11–19)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | When did Charley’s strange experience at Grand Central Station happen? | One night last summer, when he worked late at the office. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 12 | Why did Charley decide to take the subway from Grand Central Station that night? | He was in a hurry to get uptown to his apartment, and the subway is faster than the bus. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 13 | How did Charley get lost in Grand Central Station? | He went down to the first level and then to the second level, where the suburban trains leave from, and ducked into an arched doorway heading for the subway. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| ★14 | Why does Charley say it is easy to get lost in Grand Central Station? | Though he has been in and out hundreds of times, he is “always bumping into new doorways and stairs and corridors”. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 15 | Where did Charley’s earlier wrong turns in Grand Central Station take him? | Once a tunnel about a mile long brought him out in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel; another time he came up in an office building on Forty-sixth Street, three blocks away. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| ★16 | What does Charley compare Grand Central Station to? | A tree: it is “growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots”. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| ★17 | What idea about Grand Central Station did Charley never tell his psychiatrist friend? | That for so many people through the years it has been “an exit, a way of escape”, and that this may be linked with the tunnel he got into. (पृष्ठ 2, 3) |
| ★18 | What did Charley notice about the corridor he was walking along before he reached the third level? | It began “angling left and slanting downward”; he thought that was wrong but kept on walking, hearing only the empty sound of his own footsteps. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| 19 | What did Charley hear ahead in the corridor that told him there was open space? | A “hollow roar”, the sound that means open space and people talking. (पृष्ठ 3) |
सेट 3 — The third level: 1894 (कार्ड 20–31)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★20 | How did Charley come out on the third level of Grand Central Station? | The tunnel turned sharp left, and he went down a short flight of stairs. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| ★★21 | How was the third level different from the second level of Grand Central Station? | The room was smaller, with fewer ticket windows and train gates, and the information booth in the centre was “wood and old-looking”. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| 22 | What did the man in the information booth of the third level wear? | A green eyeshade and long black sleeve protectors. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| ★23 | What lit the third level of Grand Central Station? | Open-flame gaslights; the lights were dim and sort of flickering. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| 24 | What did Charley see on the floor of the third level? | Brass spittoons. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| 25 | What did the man who pulled a gold watch from his vest pocket on the third level look like? | He wore a derby hat and a black four-button suit with tiny lapels, and he had a big, black, handlebar mustache. (पृष्ठ 3) |
| ★26 | How were the people in the third-level station dressed? | Everyone was dressed like “eighteen-ninety-something”, with more beards, sideburns and fancy mustaches than Charley had ever seen. (पृष्ठ 3, 4) |
| 27 | What did the woman who walked in through the train gate of the third level wear? | A dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves and skirts to the top of her high-buttoned shoes. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 28 | What did Charley see out on the tracks of the third level? | A very small Currier & Ives locomotive with a funnel-shaped stack. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★29 | Which newspaper was the newsboy selling on the third level? | The World, which, Charley says, “hasn’t been published for years”. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★★30 | What date was printed on the front page of The World that Charley saw on the third level? | June 11, 1894. Charley found that front page later in the Public Library files. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 31 | What was the lead story on the front page of The World that Charley saw on the third level about? | Something about President Cleveland. (पृष्ठ 4) |
सेट 4 — At the ticket-counter (कार्ड 32–40)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★32 | What did Charley realise he could buy on the third level of Grand Central Station? | Tickets that would take Louisa and him anywhere in the United States they wanted to go, in the year 1894. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★★33 | For which place did Charley want to buy two tickets on the third level? | Galesburg, Illinois. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 34 | How does Charley describe the town of Galesburg today? | A “wonderful town still”, with big old frame houses, huge lawns, and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★35 | How does Charley picture the summer evenings in Galesburg in 1894? | They were twice as long: people sat out on their lawns, the men smoking cigars and talking quietly, the women waving palm-leaf fans, with the fire-flies all around, in a peaceful world. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 36 | In 1894, how far off were the two world wars, as Charley counts? | The First World War was still twenty years off, and World War II was over forty years in the future. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 37 | How many tickets could Charley pay for at the third-level ticket window? | He had enough for two coach tickets, one way. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★38 | What did the clerk at the third-level ticket window do when Charley counted out his money? | He stared at Charley, nodded at the bills, and glanced at the cash drawer beside him. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★★39 | Why did the clerk at the third-level ticket window refuse Charley’s money? | Charley had today’s money, but in 1894 “the money was old-style bills, half again as big as the money we use nowadays, and different-looking”. So the clerk thought Charley was trying to cheat him: “if you’re trying to skin me, you won’t get very far”. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 40 | What did Charley do after the clerk spoke to him at the ticket window? | He turned away and got out fast: “There’s nothing nice about jail, even in 1894.” (पृष्ठ 4) |
सेट 5 — पुराने नोट, Louisa और खोया हुआ corridor (कार्ड 41–47)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★★41 | What did Charley do during lunch hour on the day after he left the third level? | He drew three hundred dollars out of the bank, nearly all he and Louisa had, and bought old-style currency. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| 42 | Where can old money be bought, and what must the buyer pay? | At almost any coin dealer’s, but you have to pay a premium. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★43 | How much old-style money did Charley’s three hundred dollars buy? | Less than two hundred dollars in old-style bills. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| 44 | Why did Charley not mind getting less old money for his three hundred dollars? | He says “I didn’t care”, because eggs were thirteen cents a dozen in 1894. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★45 | Has Charley found the corridor to the third level again? | No. He has “never again found the corridor that leads to the third level at Grand Central Station”, although he has tried often enough. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| 46 | How did Louisa react when Charley told her about the third level? | She was pretty worried and did not want him to look for the third level any more; after a while he stopped and went back to his stamps. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★47 | Why are Charley and Louisa both looking for the third level every weekend now? | Because they now have proof that the third level is still there. (पृष्ठ 5) |
सेट 6 — Sam disappears; the first-day cover (कार्ड 48–60)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★★48 | Which friend of Charley’s disappeared? | Sam Weiner; nobody knew where he had gone. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| 49 | Why did Charley suspect where Sam Weiner had gone? | Sam is a city boy, and Charley used to tell him about Galesburg, where Charley went to school; Sam always said he liked the sound of the place. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★★50 | Where does Charley say Sam Weiner is? | In Galesburg, in 1894. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★51 | What is a first-day cover? | An envelope that stamp collectors mail to themselves on the very first day of sale of a new stamp; the postmark proves the date. It is never opened, and blank paper goes inside. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★★52 | What did Charley find among his oldest first-day covers one night? | One that shouldn’t have been there: an envelope that someone had mailed to his grandfather at his home in Galesburg. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★53 | What date did the postmark show on the first-day cover that had been mailed to Charley’s grandfather in Galesburg? | July 18, 1894. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| 54 | What stamp was on the first-day cover that had been mailed to Charley’s grandfather in Galesburg? | A six-cent, dull brown stamp with a picture of President Garfield. (पृष्ठ 5) |
| ★★55 | What did Charley find when he opened the first-day cover addressed to his grandfather? | “The paper inside wasn’t blank.” It was a letter, signed Sam. (पृष्ठ 5, 6) |
| 56 | From what address does Sam write his letter to Charley? | 941 Willard Street, Galesburg, Illinois. (पृष्ठ 6) |
| ★57 | How long had Sam been in Galesburg when he wrote his letter to Charley? | Two weeks. (पृष्ठ 6) |
| ★58 | What does Sam ask Charley and Louisa to do in his letter? | To come back and keep looking till they find the third level: “It’s worth it, believe me!” (पृष्ठ 6) |
| 59 | How much old-style currency did Sam Weiner buy at the stamp and coin store? | Eight hundred dollars’ worth. (पृष्ठ 6) |
| ★★60 | What was Sam Weiner’s profession before he went to Galesburg in 1894? | He was Charley’s psychiatrist: “Why, Sam was my psychiatrist.” (पृष्ठ 6) |
सेट 7 — Who said it? (कार्ड 61–65)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★61 | Who says, “That ain’t money, mister”, and to whom? | The ticket clerk on the third level says it to Charley. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| ★62 | Who writes, “I got to wishing that you were right. Then I got to believing you were right.”? | Sam Weiner, in his letter to Charley. (पृष्ठ 6) |
| 63 | Who says, “Well, who doesn’t?”, and what does he add? | Charley; he adds “Everybody I know wants to escape, but they don’t wander down into any third level at Grand Central Station”. (पृष्ठ 1) |
| 64 | Who says, “I wasn’t trying to escape from anything”, and what did he want that night? | Charley; he just wanted to get home to Louisa, his wife. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 65 | Who says, “That ought to set him up in a nice little hay, feed and grain business”, and about whom? | Charley, about Sam Weiner, who always said that was what he really wished he could do. (पृष्ठ 6) |
सेट 8 — Themes और story कैसे कही गई है (कार्ड 66–72)
| # | प्रश्न | उत्तर |
|---|---|---|
| ★★66 | What does Charley’s longing for Galesburg in 1894 point to? | A wish to escape the worries of today. The psychiatrist friend says “the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it” (पृष्ठ 1), while Charley pictures 1894 as “a peaceful world” (पृष्ठ 4). (पृष्ठ 1, 4) |
| ★67 | How does the story make an impossible place feel believable? | By mixing it with real, checkable details: Charley found the front page of The World, dated June 11, 1894, “in the Public Library files”. (पृष्ठ 4) |
| 68 | From whose point of view is the story told? | The first person: Charley tells it himself, as a man who calls himself “just an ordinary guy named Charley”. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 69 | Why might Charley stress that he is an ordinary man? | So that the reader can believe the event could happen to anyone; he says he passed “a dozen men who looked just like me”. (पृष्ठ 2) |
| 70 | How does Charley keep the reader involved in his story? | He speaks to the reader directly: “Have you ever been there?” (पृष्ठ 4) and “do you know what a first-day cover is?” (पृष्ठ 5). (पृष्ठ 4, 5) |
| ★★71 | What is the twist at the end of the story? | The last line, “Why, Sam was my psychiatrist.”: Sam Weiner, who has gone to Galesburg in 1894, turns out to be Charley’s psychiatrist. (पृष्ठ 6) |
| 72 | In what order does Charley tell his story? | He first argues about the third level with his friends (पृष्ठ 1), then says “here’s what happened at Grand Central” (पृष्ठ 2), tells what he did next day (पृष्ठ 5), and ends with Sam’s letter (पृष्ठ 6). (पृष्ठ 1–6) |
अंतिम पाँच मिनट — यही दोहराइए
तीन levels: Charley says Grand Central Station has three levels, though the presidents of the two railroads would swear there are only two. (पृष्ठ 1)
Psychiatrist की बात: Charley’s psychiatrist friend calls the third level a waking-dream wish fulfillment and says Charley is unhappy. (पृष्ठ 1)
तारीख़ें: The World that Charley sees on the third level is dated June 11, 1894, and the first-day cover in his collection is postmarked July 18, 1894. (पृष्ठ 4, 5)
पैसा: Charley draws three hundred dollars, buys less than two hundred in old-style bills, and eggs cost thirteen cents a dozen in 1894. (पृष्ठ 5)
Clerk: The ticket clerk stares at Charley’s bills and says “That ain’t money, mister”. (पृष्ठ 4)
Sam: Sam Weiner disappears, and his letter from 941 Willard Street, Galesburg, Illinois, says he has been there two weeks. (पृष्ठ 5, 6)
आख़िरी line: The story ends with the surprise that Sam Weiner, who has gone to Galesburg in 1894, was Charley’s psychiatrist. (पृष्ठ 5, 6)
Theme: Charley’s longing for a peaceful 1894 Galesburg points to a wish to escape the worries of the modern world. (पृष्ठ 1, 4)