In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers English Supplementary Chapter 4

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In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers English Supplementary Chapter 4

In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers Very Short Type

Question 1.

What was decided by the king and the idiots of the kingdom of fools?

Answer:

They decided to change night into day and day into night.

Question 2.

What was the punishment for disobeying the rule of the kingdom?

Answer:

Anyone who disobeyed would be punished with death.

Question 3.

Who came to the kingdom of fools, without knowing the rules of the kingdom?

Answer:

One day a guru and his disciple came to the kingdom of fools.

Question 4.

What is Duddu?

Answer:

In Kannada language its meaning is Money.

Question 5.

Why the disciples did not want to leave that kingdom?

Answer:

The disciple did not want to leave the kingdom as everything was cheap there.

Question 6.

What were the things the disciples started eating every day?

Answer:

The disciples started eating bananas, ghee, rice and wheat every day.

Question 7.

Who came to the king to made a complain?

Answer:

Thief’s brother came to the king to made a complain.

Question 8.

Why did the brick layer did not make the wall properly?

Answer:

The bricklayer did not make the wall properly because of a dancing girl, whose anklet’s jingling sound distracted him.

Question 9.

Who went to search for the goldsmith?

 Answer:

A Bailiffs went to search for the goldsmith.

Question 10.

What was the problem are seen while giving the punishment to the old merchant?

Answer:

The merchant was too thin to be executed in that stake.

In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers MCQ Type

Question 1.

In the kingdom of fools everything cost the same, a single –

(A) Pound

(B) Duddu

(C) Rupees

(D) Euro

Answer: (B) Duddu

Question 2.

The disciple became fat like –

(A) Bull

(B) Cow

(C) Goat

(D) Donkey

Answer:  (A) Bull

Question 3.

The thief made hole in the wall of ________ house?

(A) A farmer’s

(B) A king’s

(C) A merchant’s

(D) A wealthy man’s

Answer: (C) A merchant’s

Question 4.

Who was brought with tied hand and foot?

(A) Bricklayer

(B) Thief

(C) Merchant

(D) Disciple

Answer: (A) Bricklayer

Question 5.

The old dancing woman put the blame on –

(A) Bricklayer

(B) Thief

(C) Goldsmith

(D) Merchant

 Answer: (C) Goldsmith

Question 6.

The king’s servants brought that disciple to give the punishment as he was –

(A) Fat

(B) Sanyasi

(C) Thin

(D) Pure Soul

Answer: (A) Fat

In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers Short Type (03 Marks)

Question 1.

What made the Guru realize that it was a kingdom of fools?

Answer:

The Guru and his disciple were shocked to know that the fact in this kingdom everything was different.  For them night is day and day is night. They slept at daytime and did all the works at night. Again everything in this kingdom cost the same, a single Duddu, means one rupees. Seeing this guru and his disciple realised that it was a kingdom of fools.

Question 2.

How did the thief die?

Answer:

One day, when the thief entered the merchant’s house. He made a hole in the wall to get in. But suddenly the wall of the house got collapsed, fell on him and he died.

Question 3.

What made the merchant guilty and according to whom?

Answer:

The dead thief’s younger brother tried to make the merchant guilty. According to him the merchant made the wall weak, which became the cause of his brother‘s death. So, apparently the merchant killed his brother.

Question 4.)

What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?

Ans- People at kingdom of fools sleep during the day, work at night; each and every item in the market is available for 1 duddu (currency of Kingdom of Fools )

Question 5.)

Why does the disciple decide to stay in the King of Fools?

Ans- The disciple decides to stay there because of the cheap market. He can eat anything for 1 duddu.

Question 6.)

Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court.

Ans- The merchant, the bricklayer, the dancer, the goldsmith-these are the 4 persons who were called at King’s court.

Question 7.)

Who is the real culprit according to the king?

Ans- According to the king, actual murderer is merchant’s dead father but sincea dead man can’t be punished, so his son should be punished for the sinsas he has inherited his father’s wealth.

Question 8.)

Who became the king and the prime minister of the kingdom?

Ans- The guru became the king of the kingdom and his disciple became his prime minister.

Question 9.)

What did the king and minister order for the people of the city?

Ans- King and minister ordered the people to stay awake and run their businesses during night only and to sleep at day time. Disobeying this rule may lead to death.

Question 10.)

What did the guru realise?

Ans- The guru realized that the kingdom is of fools, it’s not going to sustain forever. Anytime they can harm him and his disciple.

Question 11.)

To whom did servant’s eyes fell on and why?

Ans- Servant’s eye fell on the disciple as he became very fat due tohaving plenty of rice, ghee, banana andwheat in cheap price.

Question 12.)

Why was the king puzzled ?

Ans- When the guru and his disciple started fighting about who would go to the stake first then the king was puzzled.

Question 13.)

What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?

Ans- People at kingdom of fools, sleep during the day andwork at night; each and every item in the market is available for 1 duddu (currency of Kingdom of Fools.

 

In the Kingdom of Fools Extra Questions and Answers Long Type

Question 1.) Write down the summary of the story.

Ans- The story is about a kingdom of fools ruled by a silly king and his foolish ministers who ordered day and night to be switched. A guru and his disciple visited the kingdom and were surprised to find that everything cost a rupee. The disciple stayed for the cheap food and grew fat. A thief died and the blame was passed on to others, ultimately leading to the disciple’s execution. The guru arrived to save his disciple, and told the king whoever died on the stake first would become the next king. The king and minister were executed, the guru and disciple became king and minister, and reversed the rules.

Question 2.) Describe the city of Fools in your own words.

Ans- The story is about a foolish kingdom where the king and ministers were foolish, and they reversed everything. People were ordered to sleep in the daytime and work only at night. A guru and his disciple visited the kingdom and were astonished to see people sleeping in the daylight and working at night. They found out that everything in the kingdom cost a rupee only. Disciple stayed there because he could buy all the food he wanted for a rupee.

Question 3.) Why did guru advise his disciple to leave the place?

Ans- The Guru told his disciple that it was dangerous to stay in a Kingdom of fools. Because in that city all were ordered to sleep at daytime and work at night, not adhering to the order is punishable to death. He said that there was no justice only foolish, unpredictable behaviour. According to him the kingdom would not last long.

Question 4.) How did the thief break into the merchant’s house?

Ans- A thief broke into a rich merchant’s house. He had made a hole in the wall and sneaked in, as he was carrying out his loot, the wall of the old house collapsed on his head and killed him on the spot.

Question 5.) What did the king ask the merchant when he arrived?

Ans- The king blamed him for building a weak wall because the wall of his house had fallen on the thief and the thief died. The merchant defended himself by submitting that he had not built the wall. The wall was built by a bricklayer during the time of his father. He argued that the bricklayer who built the wall should be held responsible for the death of the thief.

Question 6.) How did the bricklayer plead to the king before he could order the execution?

Ans- The bricklayer claimed that he got distracted by the jingling anklets of the dancing girl who went up and down the street many times on the day the wall was built by him.

Question 7.) Write down a short note on ‘the wisdom of Guru’.

Ans- The Guru’s wisdom was that there was no justice in the Kingdom of fools and due to the unpredictable behaviour of the fools; he wanted to leave the kingdom at once. The disciple remembers these words when the king decided that the disciple was a suitable person for execution was weak. Even in that situation guru arrived at king’s court and made the king believe that the first two persons executed will become next king and minister. Thus the guru saved his disciple’s life.

Question 8.) What is moral of the story?

Ans- One should stay away from foolish people; they need to be tackled using wisdom and not logic.

Question 9.) Justify the title of the story in your own words.

Ans- The kingdom was called the Kingdom of Fools because the Kind and the minister were idiots. They decided to change night into day and day into night, and ordered everyone to wake at night to till their fields, and sleep during the day. Even all items in the market were sold at the same price.

Question 10.) Why were the guru and his disciple astonished in the city of Fools?

Ans- The guru and disciple were astonished to see all people, cattle sleeping in the daylight and working at night. They also found out that everything in the kingdom cost a rupee only.

Question 11.) What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?

Ans- The Guru was full of wisdom and knew well that the unpredictable behavior of the fools could endanger them anytime. The Guru’s words were, “They are all fools. This won’t last very long, and you can’t tell what they’ll do to you next”.

The disciple remembered them when he was arrested by the men of the king to execute merely because he was enough fat to be fitted the stake.

Question 12.) What was the trial in the court of the kingdom of fools about? Justify.

Ans- The trial was about the death of a thief who died while coming out of a wall-hole of a Merchant’s house. The wall of the house was very old and collapsed on him. The king wanted to fix the responsibility on a person responsible for his death and punish him.

Updated: April 7, 2023 — 4:55 pm

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  1. ‘Fool can be dangerous people ’. How does the story prove it

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