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The Monkey Wrench Questions & Answers
Question 1: Why was the king in a furious rage?
Answer: The king was in a furious rage because his daughter Princess Ostla had disobeyed him.
Question 2: Why did the king decide to hold a tournament?
Answer: The king decided to hold a tournament to find a knight to whom he could marry off his daughter.
Question 3: What made the princess’s heart spring with joy?
Answer: The sight of her former lover made her heart spring with joy.
Question 4: How many knights came for the tournament?
Answer: Two hundred nineteen (including the poor student) knights came for the tournament.
Question 5: What did each knight decide to do when they saw the beautiful princess?
Answer: Each of the knights decided to win so that he could marry the beautiful princess and board with the king.
Question 6: Why did the king stop the poor student?
Answer: The knight stopped the student because he had the leanest horse and the poorest armour of any of the knights.
Question 7: What happened when the knights saw meaningful gleam in the princess’s eyes?
Answer: When the knights saw meaningful gleam in the princess’s eyes, 27 of them turned back their horses and went home.
Question 8: Who won the fight?
Answer: The poor student who was the princess’s lover won the fight.
Question 9: What boon did the poor student want to have from the king?
Answer: The boon that the student wanted to have from the king was a letter endorsing his patent rights for Schneider’s monkey wrench.
The Monkey Wrench Questions & Answers
Question 10: What was it that made the victorious knight furious?
Answer: The king’s stupidity made the victorious knight furious. The king didn’t even know what a monkey wrench is.
Question 11: How can you say that the king and the princess were both thick-headed?
Answer: The king and the princess were both truly thick-headed (stupid). First, it wasn’t proper of the king to mock at the poor student who had come to take part in the tournament. It was stupid of him to say, “Sir Knight, may I know what that marvellous rusty-looking armour of yours is made of.” And then he confuses a monkey wrench for a monkey. When the victorious knight asks for a letter endorsing his patent rights for Schneider’s monkey wrench, the king foolishly says, “You shall have it but I must tell you there is not a single monkey in the kingdom.” When the knight sees that the father and his daughter are equally stupid, he rides away in a rage. Now, again the king cries foolishly, “My God! He has forgotten to take the princess with him!” The shock is so big for him that he falls dead upon the grandstand, yet we feel no pity for him. Rather we laugh at his stupidity.
Let us now take the case of the princess. She seems to be a thoughtless idiot. When she sees her former lover among the knights, she behaves in a childish manner. She slips a piece of chewing-gum into her mouth and smiles at him in full view of all the other knights. All of them, except one, ride back home when they see the meaningful gleam in the princess’s eyes. Even now the princess doesn’t realize why the knights have gone back without taking part in the tournament. She says, “It seems very hard that I cannot marry when I chew.” There could be no greater stupidity than this. And after the joust also, she behaves in a graceless manner. She grasps the arms of her chair and leans forward to hear the words of her lover while he is going to speak to the king. Thus, we see that the father and the daughter excel each other in their stupidity.
Question 12: The princess couldn’t understand why 217 of the knights had gone back without taking part in the tournament. What is the reason behind it?
Answer: All the 217 knights had noted how the princess was smiling at the poor student. So none of them thought it worth to fight for her hand, and they rode back home. But the stupid princess couldn’t realize why those knights had gone back. She thought they had taken ill of her chewing the gum. She says, it seems very hard that I cannot marry when I chew.”
Question 13: The princess’s lover wins the fight, yet he goes away without taking the princess with him. Why?
Answer: The lover realizes how stupid both the king and the princess are. He doesn’t want to have a brainless girl as his wife and a stupid person as his father-in-law. That is why, he goes away without taking the princess with him.
Question 14: ‘A horrible suspicion overtook the king.’ What do you think this ‘horrible suspicion’ was?
Answer: Since the king was stupid, his suspicion, too, must have been a stupid one. Perhaps, he suspected that the knight has left the princess because he had no monkeys to give in dowry. Or perhaps, he suspected that no knight would come forward to have the princess’s hand, and so he won’t ever be able to marry her off.
So, these were The Monkey Wrench Questions & Answers.