The Tiger King

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

SAI (2 marks)

What message does the story "The Tiger King" give to the reader? (2023) U

2 What was the hidden agenda behind the Tiger King's marriage with the princess in the neighboring state?

(2023)

(Delhi 2017)

1. Why did the Maharaja ban tiger hunting in the state? (Delhi 2014) R
2. Why did the Maharaja order the Dewan to double the land tax? (Al 2014)
3. How did the Maharaja please a high-ranking British official? (Delhi 2014C)
4. What gave the astrologers the greatest surprise of their life while they were studying the horoscope of the ten-day-old prince? (AI 2014C)
5. Why did the Maharaja decide to get married? (Delhi 2014C) R
6. How did the Tiger King become the victim of the hundredth tiger? (AI 2014C)

SA II (3 marks)

1. How did the Tiger King's marriage bring him closer to his target? (Al 2019) R

What made the chief astrologer place his finger on

his nose? (Delhi 2019)

What considerations influenced the Tiger King to get

married? (2018) R

How did the Maharaja deal with a high ranking British

officer who wanted to shoot a tiger?

13. When he was only ten days old, a prediction was

made about the future of the Tiger King. What was

ironic about it? (Delhi 2016) [An

How did the ten-day-old baby (the future Tiger King)

react to the prediction about his future made by the

astrologers? (Delhi 2016)

What kind of life was enjoyed by crown prince Jung

Bahadur till he reached the age of twenty?

(Delhi 2016)

1. Who killed the 100^th tiger? Why? (AI 2015C)
2. The manner of his (the Tiger King's) death is a matter of extraordinary interest. Comment. (AI 2015) EV
3. When was the Tiger King in danger of losing his throne? (Al 2015)
4. How did the Tiger King manage to retain his kingdom? (Foreign 2015) U

What made the chief astrologer place his finger on his nose? (Foreign 2015)

1. Why did the Maharaja ban tiger hunting in his state? (Delhi 2015C) R

LA II (6 marks)

What was the prediction of the astrologers regarding the ultimate fate of the Tiger King? How did it come to be true? Describe with reference to the story? (2020 C) Ev Cr

Giving a bribe is an evil practice. How did the Tiger

King bribe the British officer to save his kingdom?

How do you view this act of his? (Delhi 2015) Ap

Even today so many among us believe in superstitions.

An astrologer predicted about 'The Tiger King' that

he would be killed by a tiger. He 'killed' one hundred

tigers yet was himself 'killed' by a tiger. How did the

superstitious belief 'prevail'?

(AI 2015)

CBSE Sample Questions

(2 marks)

(2022-23)

Comment on any one aspect of the writing style of the author, Kalki in The Tiger King.

ANSWERS

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

The story "The Tiger King" portrays the king of Pratibandapuram and his tryst with fate. It gives the message that no one can escape their fate, no matter how powerful they are in life. The king in the story received a prophecy of dying because of a tiger. He then proceeded to put all his efforts into disproving the prophecy, which resulted in destruction of wild life, instead of ruling over his state and serving the people. The story shows us an example of misuse of power and negligence of responsibility.

1. The hidden agenda behind the Tiger King's marriage

to the princess of the neighboring state was to be able to achieve his goal of killing hundred tigers. In order to achieve his goal, he needed to acquire a large land that had many tigers in it so he could kill them. His kingdom had run out of tigers and he needed thirty more tigers to achieve his goal and prove the astrologer wrong. This was the hidden agenda behind Tiger King's marriage.

1. There were various reasons because of which

the Maharaja banned tiger hunting in the state of Pratibandapuram. He vowed to hunt and kill hundred tigers to prove the astrologer wrong who predicted that a tiger would be the cause of his death. However, the tiger population of his kingdom was quickly diminishing because of the Maharaja's hunting spree. This is why he did not want anyone else to hunt or kill tigers.

4... After hearing about disappearances of sheep, the Maharaja set out on an expedition to find the hundredth tiger, which was supposed to be the reason for the disappearances. However, the tiger could not be found anywhere. The Tiger King was becoming impatient day by

day. In his rage, the Maharaja ordered the Dewan to double

the land tax.

A high ranking British officer visited Pratibanda-

puram and sought permission to hunt tiger from King,

Even though the king declined his request, he did not want

to displease the officer. So in order to please the high-

ranking British officer, he sent fifty diamond rings to his

wife which cost the Maharaja three lakh rupees.

The fact that the ten-days-old infant prince spoke

clearly and coherently and that he raised intelligent

questions about life and death, gave the astrologers the

greatest surprise of their life while they were studying the

horoscope of the infant crown prince.

So far, the Maharaja had succeeded in killing

only seventy tigers when they became extinct in

Pratibandapuram. In order to fulfil his vow of killing one

hundred tigers, the Maharaja decided to get married to

a girl from a royal family of a kingdom with a large tiger

population.

The Tiger King gifted his son a wooden toy tiger. The

toy was made by an unskilled carpenter because of which

its surface was rough; tiny slivers of wood stood up like

quills all over it.

A splinter from the wooden tiger pierced his hand, caused

suppurating sore, resulting into his death. This is how the

Tiger King became the victim of the hundredth tiger.

The Maharaja had exhausted the tiger population

in Pratibandhapuram but he still had thirty more to kill,

so he asked his dewan to find out the tiger populations

in different native states. He decided to marry in a royal

family with a large tiger population. The Maharaja decided

to do this so that he could be allowed to hunt tigers from