CBSE Class 12 English The Tiger Kalki Assignment

CBSE Class 12 English The Tiger Kalki Assignment. Students are advised to refer to the attached assignments and practice them regularly. This will help them to identify their weak areas and will help them to score better in examination. Parents should download and give the assignments to their children for practice.

THEME:

1. The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power.

2. It makes an earnest plea for the protection of tigers.

Main Points :

1. The Maharaja Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur of Pratibandapuram is known as The Tiger King.

2. A Miracle

(a) Infant- 10 days old spoke

(b) Asked intelligent question- the source and manner of his death.

(c) Cautioned all tigers.

3. The royal child grew stronger, taller.

4. Grew up in English environment

-taught by an English Tutor

-drank milk of an English cow

-look after by an English Nanny

-watched English films.

5. At the age of 20 he was crowned as king.

6. Began hunting tigers in Pratibandpuram.

7. Astrologer warned him to be careful with the 100th tiger.

8. He became the Sole Hunter and none other were allowed to hunt tiger.

9. He faced threat of losing his kingdom. One British officer was denied the permission to hunt tigers in Pratibandapuram or even get a photograph with the carcass of a tiger.

10. He saved his kingdom by gifting 50 expensive diamond rings, costing 3 lac rupees to the British officer's wife.

11. Maharaja killed 70 tigers in 10 years.

12. As there were no more tigers left in Pratibandpuram Maharaja married a girl from that royal state which had more tigers.

13. Hunted in his father-in-law's kingdom and killed 99 tigers.

14. He was feverishly anxious to kill the 100th but couldn't find.

15. News regarding presence of tiger near a village.

16. Irrational behaviour of king towards villagers

(a) First he gave 3-years tax exemption to find a tiger

(b) Later in anger he doubled land tax as no tiger was found

17. The hundredth tiger

Extract based questions:

1. The Maharaja and the dewan held deliberations over this issue. As a result, a telegram was dispatched forthwith to a famous British company of jewellers in Calcutta. 'Send samples of expensive diamond rings of different designs.‘

Question. To whom were the rings gifted?
Answer: The wife of the British officer

Question. Which word in the extract is a synonym of 'costly‘?
Answer: Expensive

Question. How many rings were received from the company?
Answer: About fifty

Question. What was the cost of these rings?
Answer: Three lakhs rupees

2. "First you may draw up statistics of tiger populations in the different native states. Next you may investigate if there is a girl I can marry in the royal family of a state with a large tiger population.‘‘

Question. How many tigers had the Tiger King killed before his marriage?
Answer: Seventy

Question. Which word in the extract is a synonym of 'find out‘?
Answer: investigate

Question. Who is the speaker of these words?
Answer: Tiger king

Question. Whom are the above lines addressed to?
Answer: The dewan

Short Answer Type Questions:

Question. What logic did the king give for killing a tiger in defence?
Answer: When the king grew up he encountered situations where he has reminded the prediction made bythe chief astrologer about his death. He strategised to kill the tigers in the forest of Pratibandapuram state.
He remembered an old logic to kill any animal even a cow in self-defence. So, based on that old saying he started his tiger hunt.

Question. How was the initial part of the king‘s tiger hunting?
Answer: After new laws were imposed by the state on banning the tiger hunt in Pratibandapuram, the king himself went for hunting tigers in the forest. He faced several challenges in his hunting adventure.
Sometimes the bullet missed the target and the tiger would leap upon the king but the king fought the beast with his bare hands, every time the Maharaja would win. During the initial journey, the Maharaja was solemnly determined to kill each and every tiger by himself.

Question. What was shocking about the ten-day-old king?
Answer: Being an infant, the ten-day-old king questioned something very sensible to the astrologers, who foretold the death of the king as soon as he was born. The king in his little squeaky voice described that death was normal but he was interested in knowing the reason and cause for his death. The King‘s concern towards his death mesmerized the astrologers.

Question. How did the king brandish his gun?
Answer: The king on his hunting adventure killed almost every tiger in his state and for that the population of the tiger got devastated. He summoned the dewan to put forward a strategy for hunting the last thirty tigers.
In utmost excitement, the king waved his gun around and pointed it towards the dewan.

Question. What thought did the king have about the hundredth tiger?
Answer: The prophecy had revealed that the tiger king had to be very careful with the hundredth tiger as it might be the reason for the king‘s demise. He addressed the tiger as a savage beast and he worried about the consequences as compared to the previous tiger hunting session.

Question. What did the astrologers predict? And how did the baby king react to it?
Answer: The transfixed astrologers, who witnessed the arousing concern from the king to know the reason behind his death, predicted that a tiger might be the reason for King‘s death as he was born in the hours of Bull.
The Tiger and the bulls were enemies and death should come from a Tiger.
The prince, Jung Jung Bahadur got electrified by the name of his enemy. Despite being in fear, without any hesitation, he gave a deep growl and was ready to go in a war against the Tigers.

Question. What were the desires of the British officer?
Answer: The British the officer who visited Pratibandapuram wanted to hunt the tigers of that state as he was fond of tiger hunting. After knowing that tigers could be hunted only by the king, the British officer sent words that Maharaja could do the actual killing but only a photograph is important to him where he will be holding a gun and standing over the tiger‘s carcass. This was the changing desires of the British officer from hunting a tiger to having a photograph with a dead tiger.

Question. How did the idea of marriage created fun and confusion?
Answer: On king‘s order, the dewan was summoned to the king‘s court for discussing strategies on hunting the last thirty tigers. Suddenly, the brandishing and pointing of the gun towards the dewan scared him and he got confused on the king‘s proposal for marriage. The dewan babbled a lot as he thought the proposal for the king‘s marriage was meant for him. Next, king‘s and his dewan‘s conversation took another direction which induced fun and laughter as the dewan thought the king wanted to marry a tigress as a queen.

Question. Why did the tigers start celebrating?
Answer: After the king and the astrologer had a long argument prior to the prophecy, new laws were introduced on banning the tiger hunt in the forest of Pratibandapuram state. So, the author described that it was the celebrating time for the tigers as no one except the king would hunt them due to the fear of property confiscation by the state.

Question. Why did the tiger king decide to marry? What filtering did he want for that?
Answer: The marriage the proposal was highlighted by the Tiger king so he could accomplish his goal of killing a hundred tigers and falsify the chief astrologer‘s prophecy.He called out for his dewan to draw a strategy for the fulfillment of his target. He told the dewan to look after for native states with high tiger population and then to investigate any princess that the king himself could marry. 

Question. What brought the tiger killing to a halt?
Answer: The prediction of the chief astrologer about the death of the king by a tiger, made the king become a tiger hunter of Pratibandapuram. He continued hunting the tigers till the population came to extinction in his state. Almost after killing seventy tigers, there were no more tigers found in Pratibandapuram, it was believed that either the tigers were following birth control measures or they had migrated away from the state of Pratibandapuram in fear of being hunted by the king.In this way, tiger killing came to a halt temporarily.