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Read the text entitled The drained from the lake becoming a
Legend of Sangkuriang and wide plain and nowaday became a city
answer questions 1-8. called BANDUNG (from the word
The Legend of Sangkuriang BENDUNG, which means Dam).
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time ago, there )
was a man
named
Sangkuriang. He
liked hunting 1. Who is Tumang?
animals, when A. Sangkuriang’s uncle
he was hunting, B. Sangkuriang’s father
Sangkuriang accidentally killed his C. Sangkuriang’s mother
beautiful black dog (Si Tumang). This D. Sangkuriang’s child
dog is actually Sangkuriang's father 2. Why did Sangkuriang separate
who had been condemned to live the from his mother?
life of a dog by his Guru. However, A. Because he had killed his
Sangkuriang never knew it. father.
Sangkuriang had been B. Because he had killed his
separated by his mother since mother’s dog.
childhood. Yet, he was destined to C. Because he had killed his uncle.
meet his mother again. When on his D. Because he had killed his
way home, he stopped at a small mother.
village and met and fell in love with a 3. What did happen when
beautiful girl. He didn't realize that the Sangkuriang meet a beautiful girl?.
village was neither his homeland nor A. Nothing happen
that the beautiful girl. B. Sangkuriang was falling in love.
Sangkuriang accepted this C. Sangkuriang didn’t care.
condition and built a lake by damming D. Sangkuriang killed her.
the Citarum river. With a dawn just 4. How did Sangkuriang build a
moment away and the boat almost lake?
complete, Dayang Sumbi realised that A. By damming Citarum river.
Sangkuriang would fulfill the condition B. By falling the rain.
she had set. With a wave of her C. By cleaning the river.
supernatural shawl, she lit up the D. By damming Ciasih river
eastern horizon with flashes of light.
Deceived by false dawn, the cock 5. What did Dayang Sumbi do to
crowed and farmers rose for the new stop Sangkuriang in building a
day. lake?
With his incomplete work, A. By burning houses.
Sangkuriang realized that his B. By wakening people.
endeavour were lost. With all his C. By litting up the eastern horizon
anger, he kicked the boat that he with flashes of light
himself had built. The boat fell over D. By praying all night long.
and, in so doing become the mountain 6. What did Sangkuriang do when
Tangkuban Parahu (in Sundanese, he realized that he didn’t finish the
Tangkuban means upturned or upside job?
down, and Parahu means boat). With A. Kicked the boat angrily.
the dam torn assunder, the water B. Cried
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C. Laughed D. To describe Mount Tangkuban

D. Killed Dayang Sumbi Perahu
7. What is the purpose of the text? 8. Where is Tangkuban Perahu
A. To retell about the legend of mountain?
Sangkuriang. A. East Java.
B. To show how Tangkuban Perahu B. West Java.
Mountain is formed. C. Jakarta.
C. To entertain the reader. D. Yogyakarta
Read the text entitled Biwar and answer questions 9-11.

BIWAR

People in a village in Mimika were busy. They wanted to find sago.

They prepared 12 boats to sail in the river. After three days, their
boats were full with sago and now they wanted to go back to their
hometown. While they were sailing, suddenly a dragon comes! The
dragon used his tail to attack people. The tail made a very big wave in
the river. Most of them were drawn. Only one person survived. The
person was a woman. She was hanging to her boat and finally arrived
in a land.
She was very sad. She was pregnant and her husband was killed. Her boat was
broken so she could not go back to her hometown. Later she gave birth to a son.
She named her son Biwar. She raised Biwar and gave skills, liked how to make
weapons, set traps to catch animals, and how to make fire.
Biwar became a handsome, strong, and healthy man. One day she asked his
mother.
"Mother, where is my father? And how do we live alone? Where is everybody?"
Biwar's mother cried. "Your father is killed by the dragon. I'm the only one
survived from the incident. That's why we live alone here, Son." Biwar was very sad.
His father had died. Then he planned to take his mother to go back to their
hometown.
Biwar made a big boat. He also made a lot of weapons. He wanted to protect his
mother from the dragon. After the boat was ready, they were sailing in the river.
While they were sailing, suddenly there was a big wave.
The dragon was coming! From his boat, Biwar used his arrow to attack the
dragon. After several times, he finally killed the dragon. When they arrived in the
village, people were happy to welcome Biwar. Thanks to him, they were not afraid
to sailing in the river anymore.
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9. What is the purpose of 10. What does the text tell
the text? us about?
A. To share knowledge. A. Biwar as a strong boy.
B. To entertain the B. Biwar revenge to the
reader. dragon.
C. To retell experiences C. A good mother.
D. To describe Biwar. D. The legend of a place.

11.Why did people prepare 12 boats for sailing?

A. Finding sago C. Selling plants
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B. Fighting with the dragons D. Fishing

Read the text entitled The Legend of Toba Lake and answer questions
12-14.

The Legend of Toba Lake

Once upon a time, a fisherman named Batara Guru Sahala lived in the Batak
Land. One day, he caught a fish. He was surprised to find that the fish could talk.
It begged Sahala to set it free. He did accordingly.
As soon as the fish was free, it changed into a woman. She was so beautiful
that Sahala fell in love at once. He asked her to marry him. The woman agreed
to marry Sahala. However, she told him that he must never let out the secret
that she was once a fish. Sahala promised that he would not tell anyone about it.
They were happily married and had two daughters. Every morning Sahala
went out fishing. One day, his daughters brought him his lunch. However,
instead of bringing the food to their father, the two girls ate it. When Sahala
knew what they had done with the meal, he got very angry. He shouted at them
saying, "You behaved exactly like the daughters of the fish!".
They did not know what their father meant. They went home and asked their
mother about it. Their mother was very upset. Although Sahala apologized to
her, she would not forgive him for breaking his promise.
Then the earth began to shake, and the volcano started to erupt. The earth
cracked and formed a big hole. It is said that the hole became the Toba Lake.

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12. What was Batara Guru

Sahala? C. How the lake Toba was created.
A. A sailor. D. How the fish changed into a
B. A tailor. beautiful girl.
C. A farmer.
D. A fisherman. 14. From the text we can
13. What is the story about? learn that ....
A. Never keep a secret
A. How the volcano erupted. B. Don't break your promise
B. How a fisherman caught a fish. C. Never angry to your children
D. Don't eat your father's lunch

Read the text entitled The Legend of Pari Temple and answer
questions 15-18.

The Legend of Pari Temple

A long time ago, there lived an old man in the Penanggungan Mountain. His
name was Kiai Gede Penanggungan. He had supernatural power. Kiai Gede
Penanggungan had a beautiful daughter named Dewi Walangangin who was not
married yet. Kiai Gede Penanggungan prayed days and nights for her daughter to
have a husband. One day, a young handsome man came to his place. The name of
the man was Jaka Pandelengan. He wanted to be Kiai Gede Penanggungan's
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student. Kiai Gede agreed to have Jaka as his student with one condition that he
would marry her daughter. Jaka Pandelengan and Dewi Walangangin soon got
married.. Kiai Gede Penanggungan taught Jaka many things.
After several years, now it was time for the couple to live separately from Kiai
Gede Penanggungan. They would move to another village. Kiai Gede gave some
seeds of pari or paddy to the couple. He asked the couple to plant the seeds. He
also warned the couple not to be arrogant when they were rich. He wanted the
couple to help poor people. The couple started a new life. They planted the seed.
Soon, the seeds grew and became a lot of rice. Now the couple became very rich.
The poor neighbours came to the couple to ask for some paddy seeds, but the
couple refused to help them.
Kiai Gede heard about the couple's bad behavior. Soon he visited the couple.
He met them when the couple was working in the field. Kiai Gede talked to the
couple. He reminded the couple not to be arrogant, but the couple ignored him.
They said nothing to Kiai Gede. Kiai Gede got very angry. Then he said, "You two
are like temples. You do not listen to me". Right after he said those words, an
incredible thing happened. Slowly, Jaka and Dewi turned into temples. Because the
temples stood among the pari, people then named them as Pari Temples.
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15. What did Jaka The underlined word means ....

Pandelengan and his wife do to be A. untouchable
rich? B. unbelievable
C. common
A. Helped poor people.
D. usual
B. Had a great power.
C. Planted pari seeds.
18. What can we learn from
D. Built a temple.
the story?
16. The couple becomes A. We should live separately from
temples because .... our parents.
B. We have to listen to our
A. they were rich
parent's advice.
B. Kiai Gede said so
C. We have to prepare a good
C. Kiai Gede liked them
paddy field.
D. they were good people
D. We should refuse other people's
help
17. " ... , an incredible thing
happened."
Read the following text and answer questions 19-21

Once upon a time, people in Kawar Village were happy. They held and enjoyed
a party because of their best harvest. They were singing, laughing, and eating
delicious food, except an old woman who still stayed in her house. She is too old
and weak to go to the party. Her on and her daughter-in-law did not take her there.
At home, the old woman felt very sad and lonely. She was hungry, but he found
no food in the kitchen. Her daughter-in-law did not cook that day. At the party, the
son asked her wife to take some food from the party to his mother at home. His
wife did so. Then, she asked her son to deliver it.
The old woman was so happy that she finally got something to eat. However
her happiness turned into sadness because she found that someone had eaten the
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food. There was only little rice left. The fish jut had the bones. She couldn’t stay
any longer. She cried and cried. She thought her son had disrespected and
neglected her. The old woman didn’t know that it was her grandson who had eaten
the food. He did that on the way from the party to the house.
In her anger, the old woman cursed her son. Suddenly, there was a great
earthquake! Thunder struck the village and heavy rain started to fall. Slowly, the
field turned into a lake. Finally, the whole village turned into a lake. People named
the lake Lau Kawar.
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19.Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the story?

a. Kawar people were happy because they got good crops
b. Kawar people were singing, laughing, and eating delicious food during the
party
c. There was one old woman who was neglected by her family. She didn’t come
to the party
d. A little boy cried and cried because someone ate hi lunch

20. That the old woman cursed her son because he had neglected her is the main
idea of paragraph ….
a. One b. Three c. Two d. Four

21. The story is about ….

a. The legend of Lau Kawar
b. A poor old woman
c. Rich people of Kawar
d. Kawar people’s harvesting party

Read the following text and answer questions 22-25.

The Legend of Prambanan Temple

Long time ago, there was a kingdom named Prambanan. The king of
Prambanan had a beautiful daughter named Loro Jonggrang. Bandung Bondowoso
fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. But, she didn’t like Bandung
Bondowoso because he was a mean person. She wanted to refuse, but she afraid
that Bandung Bondowoso would be angry and endangered the people of
Prambanan. Then, she came up with a plan. “If you want to marry me, you have to
build a thousand temples for me in just one night," said Loro Jonggrang. “What?
That’s impossible!” said Bandung Bondowoso. But he did not give up. He consulted
with his advisor. “Your Majesty can asked the genies to help built the temples,”
said the advisor.
So, Bandung Bondowoso summoned his entire genies soldier and commanded
them to help him built a thousand temples. The genies worked in unbelievable
speed. Meanwhile, Loro Jonggrang heard from her servant that the building of a
thousand temples was almost finished. She was so worried. But again, she came up
with a great idea. She asked all of her servants to help her. "Please prepare a lot of
straw and mortar. Please hurry up!" said Loro Jonggrang. “Burn the straw and make
some noise pounding the mortar, quickly.” All those servants did what Loro
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Jonggrang ordered them; burning straw and pounding the mortar, making the
genies think that the sun is going to rise.
All the genies immediately stopped their work and ran for cover from the sun,
which they afraid of. They didn’t know that the light was from the fire that burning
the straw, not from the sun.
Bandung Bondowoso can’t stop the genies from leaving. He was angry. He knew
Loro Jonggrang had just tricked him. "You cannot fool me, Loro Jonggrang. I already
have 999 temples. I just need one more temple. Now, I will make you the one-
thousandth temple." He pointed his finger to Loro Jonggrang and said some
mantras. Magically, Loro Jonggrang’s body turned into stone. Until now, the temple
is still standing in Prambanan area, Central Java. And the temple is called Loro
Jonggrang temple.
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24. They didn’t know that the light
22. What should Bandung Bondowoso was from the fire that burning the
do to marry Roro Jonggrang? straw, not from the sun.
a. He has to build a thousand The word “they” in paragraph three
temples. refers to …
b. He has to dam a river. a. Bandung Bondowoso
c. He has to win a big war. b. Roro Jonggrang
c. He has to build a temple for c. Roro Jonggrang’s friends
genies. d. genies
23. What did Roro Jonggrang do to 25. How did the story end?
stop genies’ work? a. sad ending since Roro Jonggrang
a. She burnt her house. died
b. She threw away a lot of mortar. b. happy ending since Bandung
c. She burnt straw and pounded Bondowoso marry Roro
the mortar Jonggrang
d. She asked her servant to sleep. c. sad ending since Bandung
Bondowoso turned Roro
Jonggrang into stone
d. happy ending since the building
of a thousand temples was
finished