Question.1.What gave the astrologers the greatest surprise of their life while they were studying
the horoscope of the ten-day-old prince? (Foreign 2014) 
Answer. When the astrologers were reading the horoscope of the ten-day-old prince, they were surprised when the ten-day-old infant asked about the manner of his death. When the chief astrologer told him that his death would come from a tiger, the baby growled, “Let the tigers beware!”.

Question.2.How did the Maharaja please a high ranking officer? (Compartment 2014) Answer. A high ranking British officer visited Pratibandapuram and asked permission for tiger hunting from the Maharaja. The Maharaja declined his request. But he did not want to upset the officer. So he sent fifty diamond rings, which cost the king three lakh rupees, to the officer’s wife.

Question.3.Why did the Maharaja ban tiger hunting in the state? (Delhi 2014) Answer. When Maharaja was born, the chief astrologer had predicted that his death would come from a tiger. As he was crowned the king, the astrologer’s prediction reached his ears. This prompted the Maharaja to kill a tiger but the astrologer informed him that the death would come from the hundredth tiger. Thus, in order to reach that mark, the Maharaja banned tiger hunting in the state except for himself.

Question.4. Why did the Maharaja decide to get married? (Compartment 2014)
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What is the reason lor the Tiger King’s sudden decision to marry? (Compartment 2014)
Answer. The maharaja had decided to kill a hundred tigers. He had already killed seventy tigers. But then the tiger population in his state became extinct. So he wished to marry a girl from a state with rich tiger population. There he would kill the rest of the tigers.

Question.5. Why did the Maharaja double the land tax? (All India 2014)
Answer. The Maharaja had successfully killed ninety-nine tigers. Now he had to kill only one tiger to achieve the tally of hundred. But it seemed to him impossible to locate the last tiger. All this annoyed the Maharaja. He called the dewan and ordered him to double the land tax in order to punish the villagers. 

Question.6. How did the Tiger King become the victim of the hundredth tiger? (Foreign 2014)
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How did the Tiger King meet his end? What is ironical about his fate? (All India 2009)
Answer. A wooden tiger brought the end of the Tiger King. He had bought it from a toy shop as a gift for his son on his third birthday. The skin of the wooden tiger was rough and was covered with slivers like quills. While he was playing with his son, a sliver pierced the king’s hand. It caused infection in his hand. Soon the infection turned into a sore, which spread all over his arm. Though the best surgeons performed upon him but the king’s life could not be saved. The irony is in the fact that though the Maharaja killed nearly all the tigers in the area, he had to face his death by a toy tiger.

Question.7. What, sort of hunts did the Maharaja offer to organise for the high-ranking British officer? What trait of the officer does it reveal? (All India 2013)
Answer. A high ranking British officer visited Pratibandapuram. He wished to hunt tigers in the kingdom. But tiger hunting was banned there. The Maharaja told him that he may conduct a boar hunt, a mouse hunt, even a mosquito hunt, but not a tiger hunt. At this, the British officer said that he only wanted to be photographed holding a gun with the dead tiger. He said that the maharaja could do the actual killing. This shows the shallowness of the character of the officer.

Question.8. Why was the Maharaja so anxious to kill the hundredth tiger? (AR India 2012)
Answer. When the Maharaja was only ten days old, the chief astrologer had predicted that his deatgh would come from a tiger. When the Maharaja was twenty, he killed the first tiger. When he showed it to the astrologer, the astrologer said that he could kill ninety-nine tigers in the same way, but he would have to be very careful of the hundredth tiger. That was why the Maharaja was so anxious to kill the hundredth tiger.
Question.9. What warning did the astrologer give the Tiger King when he killed the first tiger?
Did the prediction of the astrologer come to be true? (Foreign 2011)
Answer: When the Maharaja was only ten days old, the chief astrologer had predicted that his death would come from a tiger. When the Maharaja was twenty, he killed the first tiger. When he showed it to the astrologer, the astrologer said that he could kill ninety-nine tigers in the same way, but he would have to be very careful of the hundredth tiger. Yes, the prediction of the astrologer came to be true because finally the Maharaja was killed by the hundredth tiger.

Question.10.How did the Dewan manage to arrange the hundredth tiger for the Maharaja?
(Foreign 2011)
Answer. The Dewan had an old and pet tiger in his house. He had brought it from the People’s Park in Madras. When the Maharaja threatened him with dire consequences, he understood that the only way to save himself was to arrange a tiger for the kill. So, he and his aged wife put that tiger in a car and took him into the jungle where the maharaja was camping. The king saw the tiger and shot the beast.

Question.11.Why was the Maharaja sunk in gloom even after having killed seventy tigers?
(Foreign 2011)
Answer. The chief astrologer had said that the maharaja had to be very careful of the hundredth tiger. The Maharaja had managed to kill seventy tigers. Now the tiger population became extinct in his own kingdom. This made the Maharaja anxious because he thought he would not be able to achieve his target of killing a hundred tigers.

Question.12.What led the Maharaja to start out on a tiger hunt? (All India 2010)
Answer. The astrolger’s prediction reached the maharaja’s ears. There were innumerable forests in the pratibandhpuram state. They had tigers in them.The Maharaja knew the old saying that killing even a cow in self-defence was no sin. There could certainly be no objection to killing tigers in self defence. So, in order to prove the astrological prediction wrong, he started shooting all the tigers he found in the forests of his state and nearby regions.

Question.13.When did the Tiger King stand in danger of losing his kingdom? (Delhi 2010)
Answer. Once, a high-ranking British officer visited Pratibandapuram. He was very fond of hunting tigers and being photographed with them. He wanted to hunt tigers in Pratibandhpuram. But the Maharaja refused to give him permission to hunt tigers because he feared that other British officers too would turn up with the same request. That was why the Maharaja stood in danger of losing his kingdom.