TOEFL Listening Practice Skill 1-3 (Longman TOEFL PBT)

Soal Narrative Text SMA/SMK dan Jawaban: Tangkuban Perahu

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Tangkuban Perahu

Dayang Sumbi was exiled in the jungle, because she was unmarried but pregnant.  She gave a birth to a baby boy and named him Sangkuriang .     

One day he went hunting with his dog, si Tumang. In the bush he saw a pig, Wayungyang.  He wanted to shoot Wayungyang but si Tumang hindered him. He was angry at it and killed it, and then took its heart home. When he told that it was si Tumang’s heart, she was very angry and hit Sang Kuriang’s head with a spoon.  And he ran away and left his mother to the east.  He did not know himself and forgot his name. He was about 16 years of age.

After along time Sang Kuriang came back to the jungle where his mother lived.  She looked younger than her age, so Sang Kuriang fell in love with her.  “Will you marry me?’’ one day he asked her. But Dayang Sumbi refused because she recognized that he was her son. He insisted to marry her and Dayang Sumbi asked two marriage settlements.  One, he had to dammed Citarum river, and two, had to make a boat in one night

Sang Kuriang almost finished his work but Dayang Sumbi cheated him.  He was angry and kicked the boat.  The boat fell upside down on the peak of mountain. It was known Tangkuban Perahu, at the northern of Bandung, West Java.

1. Where is the legend from? It is from ...

A. East Java

B. West Java

C. Central Java

D. North Java

2. Who is the main character of the story above?

A. Si Tumang

B. Sangkuriang

C. Dayang Sumbi

D. Sangkuriang’s mother

3. Why was Dayang Sumbi exiled in the jungle? Because she ...

A. Was married and pregnant

B. Was unmarried and not pregnant

C. Was unmarried and pregnant

D. Followed her husband

4. Why did Dayang Sumbi refuse sangkuriang proposal?

A. Because she recognized that he was her son

B. Because sangkuriang was ungly

C. Because sangkuriang was not rich

D. Because she had a husband

5. ” ... And then took its heart home.” (Paragraph 2).

The underlined word refers to…

A. Wayungyang

B. Pig

C. Dayang Sumbi

D. Tumang

Jawaban Soal: BBCAD