Questions & Answers for Class XII, Book: Vistas
Lesson: The Tiger King by Kalki
(A) Short Answer-type Questions & Answers
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?
Ans. The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram decided to kill tigers to save his life. The
king would be safe if he killed one hundred tigers. It was the prophecy made by the state
astrologer.
2.How did the king acquire the title ‘tiger’ to his name?
Ans. The king had to kill one hundred tigers to avert (avoid) the danger to
his life. Sometimes he had to fight with tigers without any weapon. But he was
unable to kill the hundredth tiger. Since he killed so many tigers, he was
called the ‘tiger’ king.
( Second Ans.: The title ‘Tiger King’ did not
come all of a sudden to his name. There is a story behind it. He was a man of
indomitable (great) courage. He killed ninety- nine tigers. He was not afraid
of tigers. Sometimes he fought with them bare handed. So people called him the
tiger king.
3. How did the king stand in danger of losing his kingdom?
Ans. Once, the king stood in danger of losing his kingdom. He refused a
British officer to kill a tiger from his state forest. He also refused to
accept the officer’s second proposal. It was just to have a photograph with a
dead tiger.
4. What did the king do to save his kingdom or What did he do to avert
the danger of losing his kingdom?
Or
Even though the Maharaja lost Rs. 3 lac, he was still happy. Why?
Ans. The king sent fifty valuable
diamond rings to the British officer’s wife. He hoped that she would keep one
ring with her. She kept them all with her. It proved very costly to the king.
But he was happy because his kingdom was saved.
5.Why did the
Tiger King not allow the British Officer to hunt and kill tiger in his forests?
Ans.The king did not allow the 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.
6.What was the Dewan’s tiger like?
How did he take it into the forest? (2008)
Ans. The Dewan’s tiger was very old . At midnight, the Dewan and his wife dragged the
tiger and pushed it inside to their car. The Dewan drove the car where the king
was camping for his hunt in the jungle.
7.Why did the Dewan bring a tiger from the People’s Park in Madras? (2008)
Why did he secretly manage to make it slip in the jungle near the King’s camp?
Ans. The Dewan brought a tiger from the People’s
Park, Madras, to save his job. He secretly managed to make the tiger slip into
the forest near the king’s camp. He did it so that the king could easily kill
it.
8. What happened to the tiger provided by the Dewan? (2009)
Ans. The king had missed his shot at
that that tiger. So it did not die. It had become unconscious and fallen to one
side when it heard the shot. But, at last, it was killed by one of the king’s
men.
9. What did the hunters do with the hundredth tiger after the Maharaja had
left?
Ans. The king’s hunters were confused as to what they should do with the
hundredth tiger as it was alive. The king had thought that it was killed by
him. Then one of them fired a shot at the tiger from close distance and killed
it.
10. How did the Tiger King celebrate his victory over the killing of the
hundredth tiger?
Ans. The king’s joy knew no bounds
(extremely happy) when he killed the hundredth tiger.Then, as commanded by the
king, the dead tiger was taken in procession through the town and buried. A
tomb was erected (built) over it.
(B) Long Answer-type Questions & Answers
1. How did the Maharaja come in the danger of losing his throne and how
did he avert this danger? 2010
Ans. Once, the king stood in danger of losing his kingdom. He refused a
British officer to kill a tiger from his state forest. He also refused to
accept the officer’s second proposal. It was just to have a photograph with a
dead tiger. The king did not allow the 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 king
sent fifty valuable diamond rings to the British officer’s wife. He hoped that
she would keep one ring with her. She kept them all with her. It proved very
costly to the king. But he was happy because his kingdom was saved.
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?
Ans.
It was crown prince’s third birhtday. The king
brought a wooden tiger toy for him. It was a special gift for the crown prince.
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.
3. How did the 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
Ans. It was crown prince’s
third birhtday. The king brought a wooden tiger toy for him. It was a special
gift for the crown prince. On that day the king and his son played with the
wooden tiger for a long time.
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. 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.
4. Describe the efforts made by the Tiger King to achieve his target of
killing a hundred tigers? 2009
Ans. The Tiger
King made every effort to achieve the target of killing hundred tigers. He was
able to achieve the target of only seventy tigers from his own forest. 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. Anyhow, the Dewan arranged an old tiger from the People’s Park in Madras. In reality that
tiger was not killed by the king.
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