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This section includes 44 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your The Tiger King knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The original cost of the present was |
| A. | 2 annas and a quarter |
| B. | 2 annas and a half |
| C. | One and a half annas |
| D. | 3 annas |
| Answer» B. 2 annas and a half | |
| 2. |
How old was the King s son? |
| A. | One year old |
| B. | Three years old |
| C. | Five years old |
| D. | Seven years old |
| Answer» C. Five years old | |
| 3. |
The wooden tiger was carved by |
| A. | A master craftsman |
| B. | An unskilled carpenter |
| C. | The shopkeeper himself |
| D. | A British carpenter |
| Answer» C. The shopkeeper himself | |
| 4. |
How many surgeons were summoned to attend the king? |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 7 |
| C. | 9 |
| D. | 13 |
| Answer» B. 7 | |
| 5. |
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» D. none | |
| 6. |
Identify the literary device in like quills all over it . |
| A. | Metaphor |
| B. | Simile |
| C. | Alliteration |
| D. | Personification |
| Answer» C. Alliteration | |
| 7. |
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» C. drinking cow s milk like other royal children | |
| 8. |
At what age the boy crowned as king? |
| A. | 30 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 22 |
| D. | 20 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
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» D. None | |
| 10. |
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» C. desire to help others | |
| 11. |
Why did Maharaja put a ban on Tiger hunting in his state? |
| A. | to prove the priest s prediction wrong |
| B. | to prove his power |
| C. | to show his love for animals |
| D. | his kindness towards the animals |
| Answer» B. to prove his power | |
| 12. |
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» B. a soldier | |
| 13. |
What became the cause of King s death? |
| A. | a tiger |
| B. | a tiger from his wife s forest |
| C. | a tiger in his state |
| D. | the wooden tiger from the toyshop |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
What is the irony in the story? |
| A. | kings 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» E. | |
| 15. |
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» E. | |
| 16. |
What proved the Dewan s resourcefulness? |
| A. | his wits |
| B. | his intelligence |
| C. | his ability to manage a tiger in Madras |
| D. | none |
| Answer» D. none | |
| 17. |
Why did the Maharaja double the tax? |
| A. | In his rage against the disappearance of the sheep and to find 100th tiger |
| B. | to raise the funds |
| C. | to increase the income of the state |
| D. | none |
| Answer» B. to raise the funds | |
| 18. |
How has the writer has proved the futility of 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» B. by showing him as a powerful king | |
| 19. |
Why did The King not permit 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» D. None | |
| 20. |
Who is the author of The Tiger King? |
| A. | Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy |
| B. | Charles Dickens |
| C. | Kamladas |
| D. | None |
| Answer» B. Charles Dickens | |
| 21. |
From where did the author derive his name? |
| A. | from the preffix 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» E. | |
| 22. |
On which issue is the story The Tiger King a satire on? |
| A. | on people |
| B. | on animals |
| C. | on birds |
| D. | on the false pride, ego and stubbornness of the powerful people |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Under whose rule were the kings living? |
| A. | sovereign rule |
| B. | queen s rule |
| C. | king s rule |
| D. | Under the thumb rule of the British |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
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» D. none | |
| 25. |
Why was the Maharaja so anxious to kill 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» B. to prove his hunting skills | |
| 26. |
Why did the king send rings to 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» B. to invite them for hunting | |
| 27. |
What birthday gift did the Maharaja present to his 3 years old son? |
| A. | a toy |
| B. | gold coins |
| C. | forests |
| D. | a toy tiger |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
What literary device has been used in the story? |
| A. | metaphorical expressions |
| B. | Irony |
| C. | sarcasm |
| D. | All |
| Answer» C. sarcasm | |
| 29. |
Kalki, the author of The Tiger King has used as a background, days of ___ kings dominating their subjects. |
| A. | just |
| B. | brave |
| C. | eccentric |
| D. | gullible |
| Answer» D. gullible | |
| 30. |
The Maharaja of ____ is the hero of the story. |
| A. | Ramnagar |
| B. | Pratibandapuram |
| C. | Paltipuram |
| D. | Preetamgarh |
| Answer» C. Paltipuram | |
| 31. |
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» B. his desire to marry | |
| 32. |
How old was the Prince when he ridiculed the astrologer? |
| A. | 10 days |
| B. | 10 weeks |
| C. | 10 months |
| D. | 10 years |
| Answer» B. 10 weeks | |
| 33. |
The astrologer stated that he would ___ if the king killed the 100th tiger |
| A. | leave the state |
| B. | kill himself |
| C. | cut his hair |
| D. | denounce the world |
| Answer» D. denounce the world | |
| 34. |
A high ranking British officer wished to go on |
| A. | a tiger hunting expedition |
| B. | to the jungle |
| C. | and investigate the decrease in tiger population |
| D. | and remove the Tiger King |
| Answer» B. to the jungle | |
| 35. |
Maharaja and Dewan ___ the British Officer to save the kingdom |
| A. | entertained |
| B. | bribed |
| C. | pacified |
| D. | confronted |
| Answer» C. pacified | |
| 36. |
____ became the King s main occupation |
| A. | English |
| B. | Justice |
| C. | Governance |
| D. | Tiger hunting |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
In 10 years of hunting expeditions, the Maharaja killed ___ tigers |
| A. | 30 |
| B. | 50 |
| C. | 70 |
| D. | 90 |
| Answer» D. 90 | |
| 38. |
Each time the Maharaja visited his father-in-law, he killed ___ tigers |
| A. | 1-2 |
| B. | 5-6 |
| C. | 9-10 |
| D. | 12-13 |
| Answer» C. 9-10 | |
| 39. |
Maharaja on not finding the last tiger __ |
| A. | went to the Madras zoo |
| B. | terminated the services of many officers |
| C. | went to live in the jungle |
| D. | gave up the idea completely |
| Answer» C. went to live in the jungle | |
| 40. |
The frustrated Tiger King asked the Dewan |
| A. | to resign |
| B. | to go to far off places in search of a tiger |
| C. | to invite the British Officer |
| D. | to get a tiger from the Madras zoo |
| Answer» B. to go to far off places in search of a tiger | |
| 41. |
The old tiger had been brought from____ |
| A. | Calcutta Park |
| B. | Business Park |
| C. | Leisure Park |
| D. | People s Park |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
The 100th tiger had __ |
| A. | been shot dead |
| B. | fainted |
| C. | disappeared |
| D. | been set free |
| Answer» C. disappeared | |
| 43. |
The state astrologer predicted that no harm would come to the Tiger King till the killing of ___ tigers |
| A. | 89 |
| B. | 99 |
| C. | 79 |
| D. | 100 |
| Answer» C. 79 | |
| 44. |
What character trait of the prince is revealed when he utters the words, Let Tigers Beware ? |
| A. | Humility |
| B. | Arrogance |
| C. | Pride |
| D. | Will-power |
| Answer» C. Pride | |