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Class 12 English The Tiger King Solutions
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TEXTUAL QUESTION-ANSWERS
A. Read and Find Out (Each bearing 2 Marks) (Class 12 English The Tiger King Solutions)
Q.1. Who was the Tiger King? Why does he get that name? H. S. ’13
Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandarpuram, Jung Bahadur, is known as the Tiger King.
He got the name ‘Tiger King’ because the astrologer predicted that the king’s death would come from a tiger.
Q.2. What did the royal infant grow up to be?
Ans: With the passing of time, the royal infant grew taller and stronger. He drank the milk of an English cow and was tutored by an Englishman. At the age of twenty, he became the king of the state and then began to hunt his enemies – the tigers.
Q.3. What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Ans: After killing about seventy tigers, the tiger population in the state became extinct. Then he wanted to marry a prince from a state with a tiger population. The dewan (minister) found a girl and in this way the king was able to kill the required number of tigers.
Q.4. How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?
Ans: The king found it difficult to have a hundred tigers killed. Then the dewan, realizing the seriousness of the situation, bought a tiger from the people’s park in Madras. The tiger was left in the forest where the king was hunting. The king took careful aim and shot it, but his aim missed the target.
Q.5. What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Ans: The king was destined to be killed by a tiger. Hence in spite of his mission of killing a hundred tigers, he was not able to fulfil his mission. The hundredth tiger survived to be killed by a hunter not by the king. Hence this prophecy came true.
B. Reading with Insight (Each question bears 5 Marks) (Class 12 English The Tiger King Solutions)
Q.1. The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?
Ans: The story entitled ‘The Tiger King’ is a satire on the conceit of those in power. The chief astrologer assured him that as the king was born in the hour of Bull, he would be killed by a tiger. But the king could not accept the truth.
To get rid of being killed by a tiger, the king continued to hunt tigers and was able to kill 99 tigers and felt safe.
But ironically, the hundredth tiger was not killed by the king as he missed the target. Another hunter killed the tiger only to hide the fact.
Here the irony is that the king was killed by a tiger not of flesh and blood but by a tiger made of wood.
The irony illustrates that none can avoid destiny.
Q.2. What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
Ans: The author has not made a direct comment on the indiscriminate killing of tigers. But he shows great sympathy towards such beautiful animals.
The Tiger King killed almost all the tigers found in his kingdom. Consequently, the tiger population in the state became extinct. Then he married a girl from a state that had a large population of tigers. In each visit to his father-in-law’s house, he used to kill 6 or 7 tigers. Thus, he managed to kill ninety-nine tigers. But the hundredth tiger eluded the king and eventually he was killed by a wooden tiger. The writer also mentioned the cruelty of the British officials who killed such a beautiful animal only for pleasure.
Q.3. How would you describe the behaviour of the Maharaja’s minions towards him? Do you find them truly sincere towards him or are they driven by fear when they obey him? Do we find a similarity in today’s political order?
Ans: The behaviour of the Maharaja’s minions towards him seems to be driven by fear. Flattery and docile submissiveness are the chief characteristics of them.
To illustrate their servile nature, we can take the dealings of the chief astrologers. He disclosed the truth only when he was given assurance of safety. The dewan was also of the same nature. He shuddered at the sight of the gun. The shopkeeper was likewise a strange blending of flattery and cunningness. The wooden tiger cost only two annas. But he charged three hundred rupees.
There is a great similarity in today’s political leaders. We see that the politicians lie prostrate before their leaders to flatter them. Their main aim is to please their leaders.
Q.4. Can you relate instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful in the present times that illustrate the callousness of human beings towards wildlife?
Ans: Yes, there are ample instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful. Today we hear about the killing of deer, rhinos, elephants, and other wild animals that are on the verge of extinction. Only to get the tusk of an elephant, the horns of rhinos, the skins of tigers, people mercilessly kill them.
Though there are laws against poaching wild animals, in India the laws seem to be only on paper and in books. No law seems to be in force, and it is because of the interference of the political leaders.
Q.5. We need a new system for the age of ecology- a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss.
Ans: The present-day world has faced a tremendous menace of environmental degradation, and it has been facing a drastic challenge in ecological balance. Human beings have become more and more indifferent to wildlife. Only for pleasure, the natural objects are being degraded. The tigers, elephants, rhinos, deer, etc. have been killed mercilessly. Many animals and birds have gone extinct forever because of human selfishness. Glaciers have been shrinking. The water level of the sea has risen. The greenhouse effect has caused global warming.
ADDITIONAL QUESTION-ANSWERS
(Class 12 English The Tiger King Solutions)
A. Short Answer type Questions. (Each bearing 2 Marks)
Q.1. What did the Dewan do about procuring a tiger on pain of losing his job?
Ans: The Dewan for fear of losing his job, brought a tiger from People’s Park in Madras and set the tiger free in the forest where the Tiger King used to hunt. When the King saw the tiger, procured secretly by the Dewan, he shot it, but unfortunately the tiger did no die. Later on, it was killed by another hunter.
Q.2. How did the Tiger King celebrate the killing of the hundredth tiger? H. S. ’15
Ans: As the king did not find his hundredth tiger, the dewans brought a tiger from the public park in Madras and set it free in the forest where the king was waiting for a tiger to shoot. When he saw the tiger brought by the Dewan, he aimed at the tiger and shot it. But unfortunately, the tiger did not die. Another hunter killed it to hide up the fact.
Q.3. What did the astrologer predict about the Tiger King? H. S. ’14, ’17
Ans: The astrologer predicted that the ‘Tiger King’ would be killed by a tiger as he was born in the hour of the Bull and the Bull and the Tigers are enemies. The prediction came true.
Q.3. What did the Maharaja decide to do when he remembered the astrologer’s prediction? H. S. ’19
Ans: When the Maharaja remembered the astrologer’s prediction that he would be killed by a tiger, he started hunting tigers and banned others from hunting tigers in his kingdom.
Q.4. How did the hundredth tiger take its revenge on the tiger king? H. S. ’20, ’24
Ans: The astrologer predicted that the king would be killed by a tiger. Then the king started killing tigers to avoid the prediction. But he failed to kill the hundredth tiger, though he thought his mission was fulfilled. Eventually, we see that the Tiger King presented a wooden tiger to his son. The wooden tiger was so uneven that there were some spikes on it. One of those spikes pierced the king’s hand and soon infection spread all over his arm. The royal surgeons performed an operation but failed to save his life. Thus the hundredth tiger took revenge upon the Tiger King.
Q.5. Is the Tiger King a satire? H. S.’24
Ans: The Tiger King is a social satire. Here the author satirizes the whimsical idiosyncrasies of the Tiger King. He was so much moved at by the prophecy that it haunted him all the time, and at last he died of his fear.
B. Long Answer type Questions (Every 7 Marks)
Q.1. Draw a character sketch of the Tiger King in your own words. H.S. ’15, ’24
Ans: The Tiger King was the Maharaja of Pratibandarpuram. His name was Jung Bahadur. He was born in the hour of the Bull. The astrologer predicted that, as he was born in the hour of the Bull and the Bull and Tiger are enemies, he might meet his death by a tiger. As a remedy for becoming the victim of a tiger, the astrologer suggested that if he would kill as many as one hundred tigers, then he might get rid of it.
At the age of twenty, he became the king and took a bet of killing a hundred tigers so as to get rid of becoming a victim of tigers.
He thus challenged his destiny and mercilessly began to kill tigers. After the killing of 70 tigers, almost all the tigers of his state became extinct. Then he married a girl from a state with a large tiger population, and thus he managed to kill up to 99 tigers. But he could not get the hundredth tiger to kill. Then the Dewans procured a tiger from the public park in Madras and set the tiger free in the forest. The next day the king went for hunting, and when he happened to see the tiger procured by the Dewans, he shot at the tiger. But unfortunately, the tiger did not die. Later on, it was killed by another hunter.
On the other hand, the Tiger King got satisfied after shooting the hundredth tiger and thought that his mission was fulfilled and no tiger would kill him.
But the irony was still awaiting him. On the third birthday celebration of a son of the king, a wooden tiger was bought by the king to present it to his son. The wooden tiger was uneven, and the wood stood up like a quill all over it. One of those quills pierced into the Maharaja’s right hand. He pulled it out, but the wound got infected, and eventually the Tiger King died.
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