The Tiger King 🐯🐅🐯🐅

 📘 FLUENTFUTURE ACADEMY, HAMIRPUR  

✨ Short Answer Type Questions (About 40 Words Each)  

📖 Chapter: THE TIGER KING  

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1️⃣ **What prediction was made at the Tiger King's birth?**  

👉 The chief astrologer predicted that the Tiger King would die one day.  

He further said that his death would come from a tiger.  

Therefore, the Maharaja decided to kill tigers to prove the prediction false.  

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2️⃣ **Narrate the ultimate end of the Tiger King.**  

👉 The Tiger King was killed by a wooden toy tiger’s splinter.  

It pierced his hand, developed into an infection, and led to his death —  

thus fulfilling the astrologer’s prediction.  

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3️⃣ **Why was tiger hunting banned in Pratibandhapuram?**  

👉 Tiger hunting was banned because the Maharaja wanted to reserve  

all the tigers for himself so that he could kill them to escape his death.  

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4️⃣ **How did the Maharaja manage to retain his kingdom?**  

👉 When a high-ranking British officer wanted to hunt tigers,  

the Maharaja sent him expensive diamond rings for his wife.  

In return, the officer stopped demanding to hunt tigers.  

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5️⃣ **What led the Maharaja to start out on a tiger hunt?**  

👉 The astrologer predicted his death from a tiger.  

To prove the prediction false, the Maharaja began to hunt and kill tigers himself.  

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6️⃣ **When and why did the Maharaja decide to get married?**  

👉 The Maharaja married a princess from a state  

where many tigers were available so that he could continue his tiger hunting easily.  

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7️⃣ **Why did the Maharaja order the Dewan to double the land tax?**  

👉 The Maharaja failed to find the hundredth tiger,  

so he grew angry and ordered the Dewan to double the land tax  

to force the villagers to find the tiger.  

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8️⃣ **What gave the astrologers the greatest surprise of their life?**  

👉 When the ten-day-old prince spoke clearly and asked about his death,  

the astrologers were shocked because they had never seen a baby speak like that.  

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9️⃣ **How did the Tiger King become the victim of the hundredth tiger?**  

👉 The hundredth tiger was not killed properly; it was only fainted.  

Later, the toy tiger’s splinter killed the King —  

thus making him the true victim of the hundredth tiger.  

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🔟 **Who killed the 100th tiger? And why?**  

👉 The hundredth tiger was actually killed by one of the King’s hunters  

because the Maharaja had missed his shot.  

They did this to avoid the King’s anger.  

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1️⃣1️⃣ **How did the King save his throne?**  

👉 The King sent 50 diamond rings worth three lakh rupees to a British lady,  

wife of a high officer, to please her and save his throne.  

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1️⃣2️⃣ **Who was the Tiger King and how was he named so?**  

👉 The Tiger King was Maharaja Jung Jung Bahadur of Pratibandhapuram.  

He got this name because he killed 100 tigers bravely.  

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✨ LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (About 80 Words Each)  

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1️⃣ **How did the prediction of the astrologer about the king of Pratibandhapuram come true?**  

👉 The astrologer predicted that the Tiger King would die because of a tiger.  

Though he killed 100 tigers, he was finally killed by a wooden toy tiger’s splinter,  

proving the astrologer’s prediction true.  

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2️⃣ **Give a brief account of how the hundredth tiger was found and hunted down.**  

👉 The Dewan secretly brought an old tiger from a circus and left it in the forest.  

The Maharaja shot at it but missed.  

Later, the tiger fainted, and the hunters killed it to please the Maharaja.  

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3️⃣ **Describe in brief how death at last came to the King.**  

👉 The King bought a wooden toy tiger for his son.  

While playing, a splinter pierced his hand, causing infection and fever.  

He died of it, fulfilling the astrologer’s prophecy.  

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4️⃣ **What was the vow of Maharaja? How did he fulfill it and what danger did he face?**  

👉 The Maharaja vowed to kill 100 tigers to avoid death.  

He killed 99 tigers bravely but failed to kill the 100th tiger properly.  

His ego and superstition finally led to his tragic death.  

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5️⃣ **How did the superstitious belief prevail?**  

👉 The astrologer’s prediction about the Tiger King’s death by a tiger proved true.  

Even after killing 100 tigers, the King died of a toy tiger’s splinter —  

showing that superstition still dominates human belief.  

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6️⃣ **Who was the Tiger King? Why was he named as the Tiger King?**  

👉 The Tiger King was Maharaja Jung Jung Bahadur.  

He was called the Tiger King because he killed 100 tigers  

to prove the astrologer’s prediction false.  

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📘 Prepared By: **FLUENTFUTURE ACADEMY, HAMIRPUR**  

🏫 Guidance: **ANOOP SIR (@anoopsir91)**  

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