CBSE Class 12 English The Tiger King MCQs Set C

Question: What does Kalki try to show in this story?
a) The futility of going against destiny
b) The king’s shallowness
c) False pride and ego
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What proved the Dewan’s resourcefulness?
a) His wits
b) His intelligence
c) His ability to manage a tiger in Madras
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Whom did the King marry?
a) To a girl
b) To a princess
c) To a princess whose father had many tigers
d) All
Answer: c

Question: What pierced Maharaja’s right hand?
a) Tiger’s leg
b) The slivers on toy tiger’s body
c) Tiger’s teeth
d) None
Answer: b

Question: What is the irony in the story?
a) King’s desire to prove predictions wrong
b) King’s desire to marry
c) King’s desire to kill tigers
d) The king killed 99 tigers and died because of a toy tiger
Answer: d

Question: What does Durai mean in the story?
a) Chief leader in Tamil
b) Chief leader in Andhra
c) Chief leader in Bengal
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What is the theme of the story?
a) Birds
b) All birds and animals have an important role to maintain the ecological balance
c) Birds and animals live on the planet
d) Animals
Answer: b

Question: On which issue is the story The Tiger King a satire?
a) On people
b) On animals
c) On birds
d) On the false pride, ego and stubbornness of the powerful people
Answer: d

Question: What shows the false ego and pride of the king in the story?
a) His killing of tigers and no concern for nature
b) His desire to marry
c) His orders from time to time
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What is the author’s pen name?
a) Chalki
b) Balki
c) Kalki
d) None
Answer: c

Question: How has the writer proved the futility of the king’s desire?
a) By showing him a victim of a toy tiger
b) By showing him as a powerful king
c) By making the king kill 99 tigers
d) All
Answer: a

Question: Why did the king not permit the British officer to click a picture with the dead tiger?
a) To prove his might
b) He was scared of the British
c) Because it was against the rules of his state
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Who is the author of The Tiger King?
a) Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy
b) Charles Dickens
c) Kamla Das
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What did the king utter to astrologer’s prediction?
a) Let tigers watch
b) Let tigers beware
c) Let tigers be careful
d) None
Answer: b

Question: When did the prince marry?
a) At the age of 20
b) When he killed the first tiger
c) After killing all the tigers in the state
d) None
Answer: c

Question: How did the child grow?
a) Drinking goat’s milk like other royal children
b) Drinking buffalo’s milk like other royal children
c) Drinking cow’s milk like other royal children
d) None
Answer: b

Question: About which time is the story based?
a) Ancient times
b) Time of autocratic kings
c) Medieval times
d) Modern times
Answer: b

Question: Under whose rule were the kings living?
a) Sovereign rule
b) Queen’s rule
c) Under the thumb rule of the British
d) King’s rule
Answer: c

Question: Who actually shot the 100th tiger?
a) One of the hunters who accompanied the king
b) A soldier
c) King’s guest
d) British high officer
Answer: a

Question: What is the theme of the story?
a) Desire of power
b) Desire to have power for one’s selfish interests and not for the welfare of the people
c) Desire to help others
d) None
Answer: b

Question: What literary device has been used in the story?
a) Metaphorical expressions
b) Irony
c) Sarcasm
d) All
Answer: b

Question: Why was the Maharaja so anxious to kill the 100th tiger?
a) To ensure his safety and to prove prediction wrong
b) To prove his hunting skills
c) To prove his power
d) None
Answer: a

Question: From where did the author derive his name?
a) From the prefix of his name
b) From the suffix of his name
c) From the suffix of his wife’s name
d) From the suffix of his and his wife’s name
Answer: d

Question: Why did the King decide to marry?
a) To buy tigers
b) To own tigers
c) To tame tigers
d) To achieve his target of killing 100 tigers
Answer: d

Question: What did the astrologer predict?
a) The boy will be a king
b) The boy will visit the world
c) The king will be killed by 100th tiger
d) None
Answer: c

Question: What became the cause of King’s death?
a) A tiger
b) A tiger from his wife’s forest
c) The wooden tiger from the toyshop
d) A tiger in his state
Answer: c

Question: Why was the king in danger of losing his kingdom?
a) Because he killed all the tigers
b) Because he prohibited the British officer from killing a tiger
c) Because he killed a tiger in the forest
d) All
Answer: b

Question: What is the moral of the story?
a) Power
b) Power makes us powerful
c) Power is meaningless before destiny
d) All
Answer: c

Question: Who is The Tiger King in the story?
a) Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur
b) M.A.D
c) A.C.T.C.
d) C.R.C.K.
Answer: a

Question: Why did the Maharaja double the tax?
a) To raise the funds
b) In his rage against the disappearance of the sheep and to find 100th tiger
c) To increase the income of the state
d) None
Answer: b

Question: Why did Maharaja put a ban on tiger hunting in his state?
a) To show his love for animals
b) To prove his power
c) To prove the priest’s prediction wrong
d) His kindness towards animals
Answer: c

Question: Why did the king send rings to the British official’s wife?
a) To save his state and to please the British
b) To invite them for hunting
c) To invite them for a feast
d) To find more tigers
Answer: a

Question: Who was Duraisani?
a) An old lady
b) A young lady
c) A greedy woman, wife of a high-rank British officer
d) None
Answer: c

Question: How did the king challenge the prediction of the astrologer?
a) By killing the first tiger
b) By killing the 100th tiger
c) By killing all the tigers in the state
d) None
Answer: b

Question: What birthday gift did the Maharaja present to his 3-year-old son?
a) A toy
b) Gold coins
c) Forests
d) A toy tiger
Answer: d

Question: What did the Maharaja do to ensure his safety?
a) He owned tigers
b) Married a princess
c) Prohibited British officer to enter his territory
d) He killed tigers
Answer: d

Question: Who brought up the king?
a) A nanny
b) An English tutor
c) An English nanny
d) None
Answer: c

Question: At what age was the boy crowned as king?
a) 30
b) 15
c) 22
d) 20
Answer: d

Question: How did the 100th tiger take its revenge?
a) A sliver on toy tiger’s body pricked his finger
b) By being fainted
c) By being killed by a hunter
d) By putting him in danger
Answer: a

Question: Why was the king called The Tiger King?
a) He was fond of tigers
b) He kept many tigers
c) He tamed many tigers
d) Because he killed 100 tigers
Answer: d