Fairytale; The Pig King

The Pig King

In a peaceful kingdom, there ruled a king and a queen. They were happy, except that they had no children and were unable to conceive.

One evening, the queen was in the royal garden and fell asleep. The queen dreamt of three fairies. These three fairies saw that her greatest desire is to have a son. They decided to grant her wish. The first fairy decreed that the son would be handsome. The second fairy decreed that the son would have every virtue a man could possess. The third fairy, who was mischievous in nature, decreed that the son would be born with the skin of a pig, and he would act as a pig, and he would remain a pig until he was married three times.

The queen thought nothing of the dream until weeks later, when she realized she was pregnant. Nine months later, she gave birth to a child–who was indeed a pig. The king wanted to throw the baby into the sea. But he soon decided that, having no heirs, having a pig for a son was better than having no son at all.

The pig-child learned to speak and walk but whenever he could, he acted very much like a pig. He loved to roll around in the mud. But the king and queen endured this behaviour because pig or not, he was their son.

When the pig was older, he expressed an interest in finding a wife. The queen resigned herself to find a woman who would take her pig-son as a husband. Eventually, she convinced a poor woman to wed her eldest daughter to the pig prince.

This poor woman actually had three daughters, and the three daughters were beautiful. The eldest daughter who was now princess-to-be did not like the idea of being wed to a pig, prince or not, and resolved to kill her soon-to-be husband on their wedding night. She was cold and distant to the pig prince before and during the ceremony and the reception.

After the wedding, when the filthy pig prince laid down in his bed next to his new bride, he was just falling asleep when he accidentally drove his sharp hooves into her breast. She died instantly.

Both the queen and the pig prince were upset about the fate of the new bride, as she had been lovely, if a bit unhappy for being forced to marry a pig. The queen convinced the poor woman to wed her second daughter–just as lovely as the first–to the distraught pig prince. With some reluctance, the poor woman agreed to the marriage.

Unfortunately, the second daughter met the same fate as her elder sister. In the night, just as the pig prince was falling asleep, he kicked his second bride in the stomach and drove his hooves into her, killing her.

The pig prince was even more distraught than before. He was sure that no woman would want him for a wife, and that his form was doomed to kill any woman that would at least bare to lie with him. The queen felt sorry for her soon and beseeched the poor woman to allow her youngest daughter to marry the pig prince.

The poor woman was extremely reluctant, but the young daughter said humbly to the queen that she would be happy to serve her country and marry the sad pig prince. She was kind to the pig prince before the ceremony, and during the lavish reception afterwards.

On their wedding night, the young daughter got into bed with her new husband. But the pig prince, instead of falling instantly to sleep, shed his skin, and revealed himself to be a handsome man–human. He told her that even though he was now a man, he would continue to wear his pig skin during the day, as this is what the public expected to see when they looked upon him.

It was not long before the young now-princess was with child. The queen was afraid that the new child would be a pig or a hideous half-creature. It was then that the princess confided in her mother-in-law that in fact, her son was now a handsome man. To prove it, she asked the queen and the king to come to their bedchamber that night so they could see him tear off his pig skin.

That night, the king and the queen arrived, and the prince tore off his pig skin to show his parents that yes, he was no longer a pig, but a man. Everyone was thrilled. The princess gave birth to a child, and the pig prince was known hence forth affectionately as King Pig, or the Pig King.

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Question

1. Why the king cancel his plan to throw his son into the sea ? Because...
     a. He loves his wife
     b.He believed to his wife dream
     c.He thinks about his reputation
     d.He thinks better than not having child
     e. He thinks that good to having son as first child

2. What is the favorite activity that pig-child always do ?
     a. Play in his own room
     b. Play with pid in mud
     c. Speaking with the Queen
     d. Roll around in the mud
     e. Walking around Castle with the King

3. How was pig-child feeling after kill his second wife?
     a. Sad
     b. Sorry
     c. Scared
     d. Lament
     e. Hopeless
4. ".... during the lavish reception afterwards." (Paragraph 11)
     The underline word has the same meaning with ...
     a. Rich
     b. Costly
     c. Swank
     d. Deluxe
     e. Exuberant

5. How was the end of the story ?
     a. The third wife was dead
     b. The Prince became a King 
     c. The Prince still in pig looks
     d. The King and The Queen dead
     e. The Princess gave a birth a lot of pig-child