Test: The Third Level- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Commerce MCQ

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But that’s the reason, he said, and my friends all agreed. Everything points to it, they claimed. My stamp collecting, for example; that’s a ‘temporary refuge from reality.’

Q. Who in Charley ’s ancestors pursued philately?

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I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape.

Q. Who is the psychiatrist friend of ‘I’?

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I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape.

Q. Why did the psychiatrist’s analysis make Louisa lose her temper?

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I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape.

Q. How did his psychiatrist friend diagnose his problem?

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I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape.

Q. How did the psychiatrist explain the problem of ‘I’ and appease Louisa?

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The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. However, I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station.

Q. Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

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The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. However, I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station.

Q. Why did ‘I’ contradict them?

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The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. However, I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station.

Q. What will the presidents of railway stations swear?

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The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. However, I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station.

Q. Pick up the word which has the similar meaning as ‘a pile of objects’.

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Have you ever been there? It’s a wonderful town, still with big old frame houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets. And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long, and 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. To be back there with the First World War still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future... I wanted two tickets for that.

Q. Who does ‘you’ refer to?

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Have you ever been there? It’s a wonderful town, still with big old frame houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets. And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long, and 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. To be back there with the First World War still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future... I wanted two tickets for that.

Imagine that the city of Galesburg is hosting a series of conferences and workshops.

Q. In which of the following conferences or workshops are you least likely to find the description of Galesburg given in the above extract?

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Have you ever been there? It’s a wonderful town, still with big old frame houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets. And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long, and 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. To be back there with the First World War still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future... I wanted two tickets for that.

Q. Choose the option that best describes the society represented in the above extract.

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Have you ever been there? It’s a wonderful town, still with big old frame houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets. And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long, and 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. To be back there with the First World War still twenty years off, and World War II over forty years in the future... I wanted two tickets for that.

Q. “tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets” is NOT an example of :

(i) imagery

(ii) metaphor

(iii) alliteration

(iv) anachronism

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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 escape — maybe that’s how the tunnel I got into... But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

Q. The above extract is NOT an example of ________.

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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 escape — maybe that’s how the tunnel I got into... But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

Look at the given image that lists some of the ways in which the symbolism of a tree is employed.

Q. Which of the following would represent an example as used by Charley in the above extract?

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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 escape — maybe that’s how the tunnel I got into... But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

Q. Charley decided not to tell his psychiatrist friend about his idea. Choose the option that reflects the reaction Charley anticipated from his friend.

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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 escape — maybe that’s how the tunnel I got into... But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

Q. The idiom ‘feeling its way ’ implies ______ movement.