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In The Kingdom of Fools

The document contains answers to 6 questions about a story involving a guru and his disciple visiting the Kingdom of Fools. In the kingdom, they find that people work at night and sleep during the day, and everything costs the same. The disciple decides to stay due to the cheap food. The guru warns the disciple that the unpredictable fools could be dangerous. Later, when the disciple is arrested to be executed for fitting the stake, he remembers the guru's words of wisdom. The guru saves his disciple by convincing the king that the first to die on the stake will become king in the next life.

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In The Kingdom of Fools

The document contains answers to 6 questions about a story involving a guru and his disciple visiting the Kingdom of Fools. In the kingdom, they find that people work at night and sleep during the day, and everything costs the same. The disciple decides to stay due to the cheap food. The guru warns the disciple that the unpredictable fools could be dangerous. Later, when the disciple is arrested to be executed for fitting the stake, he remembers the guru's words of wisdom. The guru saves his disciple by convincing the king that the first to die on the stake will become king in the next life.

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Question 1.
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of
Fools?
Answer:
The Guru and the disciple found that in the Kingdom of Fools people used to work
during nights and sleep during days. Everything was cheap and cost the same.

Question 2.
Why does the disciple decide to stay in the Kingdom of Fools? Is it a good idea?
Answer:
Everything was cheap in the Kingdom of Fools. The disciple had peculiarity of diet.
He was tempted by the cheap food. So, he decided to stay in that kingdom. It was
not a good idea to stay there for a long time as one could be in danger any time
because of the unpredictable behaviour of fools.

Question 3.
Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court, and give the reasons for their
trial.
Answer:
The owner of the house i.e. the merchant, the bricklayer, the dancing girl and the
goldsmith were tried in the king’s court. They all were tried because the thief died
when the wall of merchant’s house had collapsed. The merchant was tried for
building a weak wall. The bricklayer was tried for doing his work carelessly. The
dancing girl was tried for disturbing the concentration of the bricklayer. The
goldsmith was blamed for making the dancing girl walk up and down to his house a
dozen times.

Question 4.
Who is the real culprit according to the king? Why does he escape punishment?
Answer:
The merchant’s dead father was held responsible for making the wall weak. But
according to the king the rich merchant was the real culprit because he had inherited
both sins and riches of his father. He escaped the punishment because he was too
thin to fit the stake.

Question 5.
What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
Answer:
The Guru was full of wisdom and knew well that the unpredictable behaviour of the
fools could create danger 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 fitted the stake. It was because of the Guru’s words of wisdom that the
execution was postponed.

Question 6.
How does the Guru manage to save his disciple’s life?
Answer:
The Guru arrived on time to save his disciple and created a drama. He told the king
that it was not an ordinary stake and whoever went to the stake first would become
the king in next life. The second to die would become his minister. The king wanted
to avail himself of the opportunity. The Guru and his disciple were released. Thus the
Guru managed to save his disciple’s life.

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