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The Tiger King Short Question : 2 Marks

Question : What did the royal infant grow up to be ?

Ans. The royal infant grew taller and stronger day by day. He was brought up by an English nanny and tutored by Englishman. He was given the milk of an English cow. Like many other Indian crown princes he watched only English movies.

Question : What did the chief astrologer predict about the Tiger King ?

Ans. The chief astrologer predicted that the king may Kill ninety-nine tigers in the same manner, but he must be careful with the hundredth tiger. The hundredth tiger would decide his fate.

Question : How did the Tiger King celebrate his victory over the killing of the hundredth tiger ?

Ans : After killing the hundredth tiger, the Tiger King asked to bring the dead tiger with a procession through the town and buried. He also asked to creet a tomb over it.

Question : Who is the Tiger King ? Why does he get the name?

Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is known as the 'Tiger King'.

  He got the name because he promised to kill hundred tiger with a view to escaping his death. That was suspected to come from a tiger.

Question: What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tiger to kill ?

Ans: After Killing 70 tigers within ten years, the tiger population became extinct in the forests of Pratibandapuram. Then he married in the royal family of a state with a large tiger population. In this way, he was able to kill 99 tigers.

Question : How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate ?

Ans: The king had found very difficult to kill the hundredth tiger. The Dewan realised the seriousness of the situation and made arrangements. A tiger was brought from the people's park in Madras. It was left in the forest where the king was hunting. The king shot the tiger at him carefully. But he didn't know he missed the goal.

Question : What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved ? 

Answer: In fact, the king will not be able to kill the hundredth tiger. It survived only because it was killed by a hunter. So, the king will not meet the target of killing hundred tigers.

  No, the prophecy is not completely disproved. Ironically, the hundredth tiger which made of wood, takes its revenge upon the Maharaja.

Question : What did the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill ?

Ans : When the tiger population became extinct in the forest of his own kingdom, the Maharaja married a girl from the royal family of a state which had a large tiger population. He killed five or six tigers each time he visited his father-in-law.

Question : What dangers did the Tiger King face during his tiger hunting ?

Ans : During his tiger hunting, he faced a lot of dangerous situation when his bullet missed its mark. Sometimes the tiger jumped upon him. He had to fight with the ferocious beast in his bare hands. It was the Maharaja, who won each time. In spite of all these, he continuously went on hunting the tigers.

Question : How did the Tiger King come in danger of losing his throne/kingdom ?

Ans : Once a high ranking British officer visited forest of Pratibandapuram. He was very fond of tigers hunting and taking photograph with the  dead tigers. But the king refused to permit him. So, the Tiger King came in danger of losing his throne.

Question : How did the Maharaja manage to retain his kingdom/throne ?

Ans : The Maharaja found his kingdom in danger when he refused the British officer to hunt tiger in his kingdom. Getting the trouble, he decided to gift wife of the officer. He bought 50 diamond rings and sent them to the British officer's wife. The lady became happy and thanked the king. Thus, the Maharaja managed to retain his kingdom.

Question : Did the Tiger King shoot the hundredth tiger ?

Ans : Actually, the Tiger King shot the hundredth tiger taking careful aim. But he missed the mark. After he had left, the hunters took a close look of the tiger and found that it was not dead. So, one of the hunters killed it to hide the fact.

Question : How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge upon the king ?

Ans : Though it was a wooden tiger it took the revenge. One of its silvers pierced the hand of the king. The infection flared in his arms. Slowly it became an incurable sore that caused his death.

The Tiger King Long Question : 7 Marks

Question : Draw a character sketch of the Tiger King in your own words. OR
  How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge upon the Tiger King ?

Ans : The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram was called the Tiger King. He was determined and brave man. He did not fear killing tigers with bare hands, when his bullet missed the mark.

  Once the chief astrologer predicted that death of Tiger King will come from the tiger. When he was 20 years old, the prediction of death came to his ears. There were many forests along with tigers in the Pratibandapuram state. The Maharaja started tiger hunting. The astrologer told the King to be very careful with the hundredth tiger. In this manner, he was able to kill 99 tigers. But at the time of hundredth tiger, the Maharaja shot the tiger very carefully. But the Maharaja did not know that the bullet missed the tiger.

  After a few days, the Maharaja gave his son a wooden tiger as a birthday present. On that day father and son played with that wooden tiger. Its surface was rough; tiny slivers of wood stood up like quills all over it. One of those slivers pierced the Maharaja's right hand. Next day, infection flared in his right hand and it developed into a suppurating sore which spread all over the arm and the Maharaja was dead. In this way, the hundredth tiger took its revenge upon the Tiger King.

Question : How did the Tiger King come in danger of losing his throne and how did he save his kingdom ?

Ans: The Tiger King had irritated the high ranking British officer by refusing him permission to hunt tigers in Pratibandapuram. He was very fond of hunting tigers. The Maharaja did not relent even when the request was toned down that the durai himself did not have to kill the tiger, the Maharaja could do the actual killing. The durai wanted to be photographed holding the gun and standing on the tiger's carcass. The Maharaja stood in danger of losing his throne.

  The Maharaja and his Dewan held a discussion over this issue and sent a telegram to the famous British company of jewelleries in Calcutta to send samples of expensive diamond rings of different designs. The Maharaja then sent the whole lot of fifty rings to the British official's wife, expecting her to choose one or two. But the lady kept all the rings and caused a loss of 3 lakh rupees. The king did not mind about it because he was able to save his kingdom.