12th Eng.The Tiger King 6 SOLVED Extracts
VISTAS Ch-2 The Tiger King by Kalki CBSE Based Extracts EXTRACT -1 The Maharaja's tiger hunts continued to be highly successful. Within ten years he was able to kill seventy tigers. And then, an unforeseen hurdle brought his mission to a standstill. The tiger population became extinct in the forests of Pratibandapuram. Who knows whether the tigers practised birth control or committed harakiri? Or simply ran away from the state because they desired to be shot by British hands alone? (a) How many tigers were to be killed after having killed seventy tigers? (i) 100 tigers (ii) 70 tigers (iii) 30 tigers (iv) 60 tigers (b) Harakiri means…… (c) What was the unforeseen problem before the Maharaja? (d) What does 'standstill' mean? Answers (a) (iii)30 tigers (a) (iii) 30 tigers (b) ritual suicide (c) The unforeseen problem before the Maharaja was that the tigers were not seen in the...