Class 12 English - Vistas - Chapter The Tiger King NCERT Solutions | Can you relate instances of game-hunting

The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?

How would you describe the behaviour of the Maharaja’s minions towards him? Do you find them truly sincere towards him or are they driven by fear when they obey him? Do we find a similarity in today’s political order?

What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?

What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?

Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?

What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?

What did the royal infant grow up to be?

How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?

We need a new system for the age of ecology - a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss.

Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?

Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?

The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?

What does the third level refers to?

‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?

What kind of a person was Evans?

It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?

What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?

What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?

Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?

Reflecting on the story, what did you feel about Evans’ having the last laugh?

How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?

Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?

What do you think was Jo’s problem?

What makes Jack feel caught in an uglymiddle position?

Will the exam now go as scheduled?

Would Charley ever go back to the ticket counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife?

Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?

Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?

Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and future?