Indonesian Legends Quiz

What is the legend of Malin Kundang about?

• A. A wealthy boy who forgets his poor origins

• B. A magical fish turning into a woman

• C. A young man falling in love with his mother

• D. A fisherman breaking a promise

Which Indonesian legend involves the formation of Mount Tangkuban Perahu?

• A. The Legend of Malin Kundang

• B. The Legend of Sangkuriang

• C. The Legend of Lake Toba

• D. None of the above

What language feature is commonly used in Indonesian legends to describe characters and settings?

• A. Past Tense

• D. Direct Speech

• B. Action Verbs

• C. Adjectives

What is the generic structure of Indonesian legends?

• D. Setting, Conflict, Resolution

• A. Introduction, Climax, Conclusion

• B. Orientation, Complication, Resolution

• C. Beginning, Middle, End

What tense is commonly used to narrate Indonesian legends?

• A. Present Tense

• B. Future Tense

• C. Past Tense

• D. Imperative Tense

Which one of these generic structures that we use to tell information about character, time, and place of the story?

• Complication

• Resolution

• Reorientation

• Orientation

What is the picture telling about?

• Lutung Kasarung

• Crying stone

• Malin kundang

• Sangkuriang

What is a legend story?

• A story which tells about animals and their life in order to give a lesson.

  
  

• An imaginative story to entertain people

• A story tells about past experience in order to inform people

• A story from the past which cannot be proven but many people believe.

  
  

What is the legend of the picture?

• The legend of Crocodile

• The legend of the Condor

• The legend of Surabaya

• The legend of Animals

On a hill in area of Borneo, there lived a poor widow and her daughter. The girl was really beautiful. However, she was very lazy and spoiled. She loved to dress up every day, but never helped her mother.

One day, they went down to a village foe shopping. A market was far away from their house. They walked there. The girl got dressed very nice and walked in front of her mother. While the widow walked behind, carried a basket, wore dirty clothes. Nobody knew that they were mother and daughter.

While entering village, people looked at them. Young men were so fascinated by girl’s beauty. However, she was in contrast to a woman walking behind her. It made people wonder. Some young men asked men asked her whether woman was her mother. But girl arrogantly replied that she was her maid. More people asked her along the way to market. She gave a same answer that widow was her slave.

Eventually, mother’s heart hurt to hear her daughter’s answer. Mother prayed to God to punish her ungodly daughter. Suddenly, girl stopped then slowly turned to be a stone. Daughter cried, she apologized t his mother. But it was too late.

What makes the woman upset toward her daughter's attitude?

• woman rejected to forgive her daughter

• The daughter did not admit the woman as her mother

• The daughter never help the woman in doing household

• The daughter disappointed to her mother since she was poor