Class 12 English - Vistas - Chapter The Tiger King NCERT Solutions | We need a new system for the age of ecol

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?

Can you relate instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful in the present times that illustrate the callousness of human beings towards wildlife?

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?

Does the story remind you of ‘Birth’ by A. J. Cronin that you read in Snapshots last year? What are the similarities?

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

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 could the Governor have done to securely bring back Evans to prison when he caught him at the Golden Lion? Does that final act of foolishness really prove that “he was just another good-for-a-giggle, gullible governor, that was all”?

How does Jo want the story to end and why?

There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.

Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?

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

While we condemn the crime, we are sympathetic to the criminal. Is this the reason why prison staff often develop a soft corner for those in custody?

Will the exam now go as scheduled?