1. The Tiger King
Long Answer-type Qs.
Q1. How did the Maharaja come in the
danger of losing his throne and how did he avert this danger? 2010
The king did
not allow a British officer to kill a tiger because he did not want to open the
way for other British officers to reach his forests and kill the tigers. He
wanted to kill them himself to falsify the astrologer’s prediction. The
Maharaja and the Dewan held a meeting. They thought seriously on the issue of
the danger on the throne. It was because the king had refused a British officer
to fulfil his desire. So they decided to please the officer. They arranged for
fifty expensive samples of diamond rings of different designs from a famous
British company of jewellery in Calcutta. As the samples of the rings arrived,
the king sent them all to the British officer’s good lady. The king had
expected that the good lady would select a few of the samples and return the
rest of them. The officer’s wife kept all the fifty samples of the rings with
her. She sent a letter of thanks to the tiger King who had to pay the bill for
three lakh rupees. However the Maharaja was happy as his throne was secured.
2. How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge upon the Tiger King? What is
ironical about his fate? 2009
Or
How did the Tiger King meet his end?
What is ironical about his fate?
The king wished to give a very special
gift to his son on his third birth day. So he went to the shopping centre and
searched almost every shop to buy such gift. Finally he came to a toy shop
where he saw a wooden tiger. The king purchased it for three hundred rupees and
presented it to his son. On that day the king and his son played with the
wooden tiger for a long time. The toy was not smoothly carved. Its surface was
rough and some tiny slivers stood up like quills all over it. So, while playing
with It, one of the slivers pierced Maharaja’s hand. He pulled it out with the
help of his left hand. But slowly infection spread all over his arm. At last
there was no way out but operation. It was performed by three famous surgeons.
But the Maharaja died after the operation. The irony was that the Maharaj was
called the Tiger King and he was not afraid of the living tigers. They could
not harm his life at all. But a wooden tiger became the cause of his death.
Nature also takes its revenge. Thus the hundredth tiger took the revenge on the
king of Pratibandapuram.
Although the prediction of the
astrologer came to be true, yet we do not agree with that. It was by chance
that the king’s hand got infected. In those days life saving medicines and
modern operation techniques were not available. So the king died in the absence
of medical facilities.
3. The astrologer’s prediction about the death of the Tiger King came to be
true. Do you agree with this statement? Explain why or why not? 2008
(See the above answer)
4. Describe the efforts made by the Tiger King to achieve his target of
killing a hundred tigers? 2009
The Tiger King made every effort to achieve the target of killing hundred
tigers. In the beginning, he stared killing comfortably because his state
forests had many tigers. But slowly the number fell down and he was able to
achieve the target of only seventy tigers. Then he married the daughter of a
king whose forest had several tigers. Thus he got the freedom to hunt tigers in
his father-in-law’s state. In every visit he killed five to six tigers. He
could make the number of ninety-nine only. He made every effort to find out the
hundredth tiger. He was worried and anxious to kill the last one. Many officers
lost their jobs as they failed to trace the 100th tiger. Finally he
threatened the Dewan of losing his job if he could not find out the last tiger.
Anyway the Dewan arranged an old tiger from
the People’s Park in Madras. In reality that tiger was not killed by the king.
Other Important Questions
1.
Why
did the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram decide to kill tigers or What led the king to start hunting and
killing of one hundred tigers?
2.
How
did the king acquire the title ‘tiger’ to his name?
3.
How
did the king stand in danger of losing his kingdom?
4.
What
did the king do to save his kingdom or What did he do to avert the danger of
losing his kingdom?
5.
Even
though the Maharaja lost Rs. 3 lac, he was still happy. Why?
6. What was the Dewan’s tiger like? How did he take it into the forest?
(2008)
7.
Why
did the Dewan decide to give up his own tiger to be killed by the Maharaja?
(2008)
8.
What
happened to the tiger provided by the Dewan?
(2009)
9.
What
happened when the hundredth tiger came into the Maharaja’s presence?
10.
What
did the hunters do with the hundredth tiger after the Maharaja had left?
11.
How
did the Tiger King celebrate his victory over the killing of the hundredth
tiger?
12.
What
did the British officer’s secretary tell the Maharaja? Why did the Maharaja
refuse permission?
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