NCERT Book Class 12 English Vistas Book Chapter 2 The Tiger King (Question-Answer)
Chapter 2 The Tiger King - Kalki
Question 1) Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Answer- The Tiger King is the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram. He is the hero of the story. He gets that name by killing so many tigers.
Answer- The royal infant grew tallen and stronger day by day the boy drank the milk of an english cow.He was brought up by on english nanny. He was tutored in english by an englishman. He saw english films only.
Answer- Maharaja will marry girl in the royal family of a state with a large tiger population so that he may find the required number of tiger to kill.
Answer- The Maharaja will have to be extremely careful with that last tiger. The tiger is a savage beast after alll one has to be warry of it because the late cheif astrologer said that the Maharaja should beware of the hand death tiger.
Answer- Nothing will now happen to the astrologer because he is dead. I think that the prophency was not indisputably disaproved. because the tiger king could not kill the hundredth tiger. On the contrary his death had come from a toy tiger.
Question 2) What did the royal infant grow up to be?
Question 3) What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
Question 4) How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?
Question 5) What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?