Contoh Soal Narrative

TEXT 1

One morning, one of the witch’s friends came over to visit. When she looked around the room, she said ,”Your house is ugly. My house is more beautiful than yours, and the walls are brighter.” The witch was very angry when she heard this and she shouted, “Get out of my house! And don’t ever come back here!”             After her friend left, the witch looked around her house and she said to herself, ”My friend was right. My house looks ugly and the paint is faded. I have to repaint it.” Then she went to the shop and bought a can of paint.             After lunch she started to paint, and she worked very carefully. In the afternoon she finished the lower part of her house. When she wanted to start painting the upper part she found out that she couldn’t reach it. Then she got an idea,” I will use my magic broom!” She shouted, ”Broom, oh my broom, turn into a paint brush and paint my walls!”             Suddenly the broom turned into a paint brush and started to paint the upper walls. It worked very fast, in ten minutes all the minutes all the jobs all was done. The witch was very happy.

1.   Why was the witch angry with her friend?

a. She scolded her that her house was ugly.

b. Her house needed painting.

c. She asked to get out of her home.

d. She never came back again.

e. She looked around the witch’s room.

2.   Why did the witch’s paint the upper part?

a. She never painted it.

b. The paint is faded.

c. She bought a can of paint.

d. Her friend is right.

e. Her friend’s house was more beautiful.

3.   How did the witch paint the upper part?

a. By magic broom.

b. Someone painted

c. By a paint brush

d. By her good idea

e She had the painter to do it

4.   How could the broom turn into a paint brush?

a. It was given a brush

b. It was the witch’s good idea

c.  It was a new broom

d. The witch was very clever.

e. It was a magic broom

TEXT 2

Once there was an Indian who had a pet fish named Tommy, which he kept in a barrel.             But the fish go pretty big and the Indian had to change the water a good deal to keep him alive. He was too lazy to do that, so he thought he would teach the fish to live out of water.             He began by taking Tommy out of barrel for a view minutes at a time, pretty often, and then he took him out more often and kept him out longer. After sometime Tommy could stay out a good while if he was in some wet grass.             Then the Indian found he could leave him in the wet grass all night and pretty soon that fish could live in the shade whether the grass was wet or not. By the time we had got pretty tame, too and he used to follow the Indian around a good deal. When the Indian went out to dig worms to eat, Tommy went along too and got some for himself. The Indian thought of everything for that fish, until Tommy didn’t need any water at all. He could go anywhere down a dusty road and stay all day out in the hot sun.             So, people wanted to buy Tommy, but the Indian said he wouldn’t sell a fish like that for any amount of money. You’d see him coming to town with Tommy following along the road behind, just like a dog, only of course he traveled a good deal like a snake, and almost as fast.             Well it was really sad the way that Indian lost his fish and it was unusual, too. He went to town one day with Tommy coming along behind, as usual. There was a bridge in the road and the Indian came to it. He saw there was a hole in it, but he went over it without thinking. A little later he looked around for Tommy but he couldn’t find him. He went back away and called, but he still couldn’t see any sign of his pet.             Finally he came to the bridge and saw the hole, and he thought right away that maybe his fish had fallen in there. So he went to the hole and looked down, and sure enough, there was Tommy, floating on the water, bottom-side up. He’d fallen through that hole into the river and drowned.

           

5.   Why did the Indian teach Tommy to live out of water?

a. He was too lazy to change water a good deal to keep him alive.

b. He kept him in a barrel.

c. The fish got pretty big.

d. He began by taking Tommy out of the barrel for a few minutes at a time.

e. he took him out more often and kept him out longer.

6.   What’s Indian’s problem?

a. He wouldn’t sell a fish like that for any amount of money.

b. The Indian lost his fish and it was unusual.

c. Tommy was floating on the water, the bottom side up.

d. Tommy didn’t need any water at all.

e. He was too lazy to change water a good deal to keep him alive.

7.   How did the Indian solve the problem?

a. He sold the fish.

b. He threw away Tommy on the water.

c. By teaching Tommy to live out of water

d. He lost the fish.

e. He came to the bridge.

TEXT 3

Long, long ago Mosquitoes didn’t buzz, they talked and talked.             One day Mosquitoes was talking to Iguana, telling about his vacation, about every minute of his vacation. Mosquito would not let Iguana say one word. Iguana was so annoyed that he walked away, leaving Mosquito still talking. Iguana grumbled and waved her tail.             She was still grumbling when she passed her friend’s snake and forgot all about saying hello. Snake was feeling hurt. He felt so sad that he slithered down a rabbit’s hole.             “Help!” yelled rabbit as she scurried (=lari cepat) out hole, terrified of snake.             “What’s wrong?” cawed Crow as he saw Rabbit racing. Danger must be near. “Run for your lives!” cawed Crow.             Monkey heard Crow’s warning and took off through the treetops, leaping branch to branch. When monkey landed on the owl’s branch, high up in leafy tree, Owl’s nest tipped of the branch and fell to the ground, breaking Owl’s egg. The owl was heartbroken, so much that she didn’t shoot for the sun to come up.             The whole jungle was mad at mosquito. Finally Owl hooted for the sun to come up and when it did, Mosquito lost his voice. All he could so was buzzing in everyone’s ears, “Zzzzz is everyone still mad at me.

8.Why did Iguana leave the mosquito talking alone? Because …

a.  long, long time ago mosquito did not buzz but talked.

b. mosquito was talking about his annoying vacation.

c. Iguana felt annoyed with what mosquito’s behavior.

d. Iguana liked grumbling and waving his tail.

e. Iguana didn’t like talking about vacation.

8.   The snake felt uneasy? Because …

a. his friend, iguana passed him.

b. Iguana didn’t greet him.

c.  Iguana liked grumbling.

d. Iguana must have forgot him.

e. he slathered down a rabbit’s hole

9.   What made the rabbit rushed out quickly from his house?

a. snake

b. mosquito

c. iguana

d. crow

e. monkey

10.          The owl felt so sad because …

a. the nest in which she lay out eggs was on free top.

b. the monkey leaped and landed on her nest.

c. the monkey broke her eggs which fell into the ground.

d. the nest fell down and her eggs were broken.

e. the branch where she put her nest broken down.

11.          “Mosquito was talking to Iguana, telling about his vacation, …

What is the synonym of the underlined word?

a. Holiday

b. Spare time

c. Opportunity

d. Chance

e. Occasion

TEXT 4

THE SHEPHERD BOY There was once a young shepherd boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him day so thought upon a plan which he could get a little company and some excitement. He rim died down toward the village calling out, ‘Wolf, wolf” and the villagers came out to meet him and some of them stopped with him for a considerable time. This pleased the boy so much that a few days afterward he tried the same trick, and again the villagers helped him. But shortly after this a wolf actually did come out from the forest, and began to worry the sheep, and boy of course cried out, “Wolf, wolf,” even louder than before. But this time the villagers who had been fooled twice before, thought the boy was again deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to help him. The wolf made good meals of the boy’s flock, and when the boy complained, the wise man of the village said, ‘A LIAR WILL NOT BE BELIEVED EVEN WHEN HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH”

12.  It was rather lonely for him all day so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some excitement.

              The underlined word means . . . . .

a.    firm              

b.    attention       

c.    enjoyment

d.    factory         

e.    friend    

      

13.  What lesson can we take from the story?

a. We should help each other.

b. When someone finds difficulty we should immediately help him.

c.  In order to be trusted by others, we should not easily tell a lie.

d. When we feel lonely we do everything to get a little company.

e.  We should be very responsible for our flock.

14.Why did the boy like calling out, “Wolf . . . . . wolf . . . . .”?

a.    Because his sheep was threatened by wolf.

b.    Because wolf came out from the forest frightening him.

c.    Because he felt lonely and wanted to make excitement.

d.    Because he wanted to deceive the villagers.

e.    Because his sheep lost and he thought wolf had attacked his flock.

TEXT 5

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head.             The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.             When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.             He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his fist towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him. At last he hit upon a clever idea. “ Monkeys are a great imitators,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

15.  Why was each monkey wearing a cap on their head?

a.    They liked them

b.    They liked wearing caps

c.    They were imitating the cap seller

d.    They were teasing the cap seller

e.    They had stolen the caps

16.  What is the moral value of the text?

a.    Monkeys are clever animals

b.    Put your belongings in a safe place

c.    Kindness must be possessed by everyone

d.    Foolishness is a source of faulty

e.    You have to know who you are talking to

TEXT 6

           

A young man was walking in the woods when he heard a small voice calling him. He looked around but could not see anyone. The voice called out again, and appeared from the roots of an enormous oak tree. There, the young man found a bottle, in which there was a tiny man who begged, “ Let me out. “             So the young man removed the cork, and a cloud of smoke emerged and grew into a frightening giant.             “ I am a genie,” said the giant, “ I was imprisoned in the bottle by magician. But now that I am freed prepare to meet your end !”             “ Wait a minute,” said the young man. “ I don’t believe one word you have said. A giant of your size could not have really come out of the little bottle. You could never get into it.”             “ Of course I can,” said the genie, “ I’ll prove it to you.” As soon as the genie returned to the bottle, the young man replaced the cork. The next time, in order to get free, the spirit had to make a bargain with the young man, not only would it refrain from killing him, but it had also to give him a dagger which turned into gold everything it touched, and healed all the wounds. And afterwards, thanks to that magic dagger, the young man became a rich man.

17. The orientation of the text above is …..

a.    young man was walking in the woods when he heard a small voice calling him.

b.    “ I am a genie,” said the giant, “ I was imprisoned in the bottle by magician. But now that I am freed prepare to meet your end !”

c.    as soon as the genie returned to the bottle, the young man put the cork back in.

d.    the young man became a rich man.

e.    the next time, in order to get free, the spirit had to make a bargain with the young man

18.  The character in the text above are ….

a.    the genie and the young man

b.    the genie and the giant

c.    the genie and the magician

d.    the young man and the magician

e.    the young man and a rich man

19.  The voice called out again, and appeared from the roots of an enormous oak tree. The underlined word has similar meaning to …..

a.    very small                              

b.    very tiny                                 

c.    very much

d.    very big

e.    very long

20.  The communicative purpose of the text above is ……

a.    to tell past events

b.    to amuse the readers

c.    to persuade the readers

d.    to describe about the young man

e.    to share with the readers about the experience

21.  Which statement is true according to the text ?

a.    The young man got into the little bottle

b.    The giant gave a dagger to the genie

c.    The giant couldn’t return to the little bottle

d.    The magician had imprisoned the genie in the bottle

e.    The young man had to make a bargain with the magician

TEXT 7

Once upon a time, there was a clown. The clown was sad because he has lost his laugh. He didn’t think anything was funny anymore. So he went into the woods to see if he could find his laugh.             In the woods he met three bears. He asked the bears if they knew what had happened to his laugh. The bear said that a girl with golden hair had come into their house and eaten the porridge, broken a chair and slept in their beds. The bears said that the girl might have stolen the clown’s laugh. So the clown went further into the woods to look for the girl with golden hair.             As luck would have it the girl with golden hair was walking through the woods on her way to her grandmother’ house.             When the clown asked if she had seen his laugh she said that all she had seen were three very angry, very hairy, growingly, grizzly bears.             The clown thought this was very funny and started to laugh.

22.  Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the text ?

a.    The clown was not happy

b.    The clown went into the woods

c.    The girl didn’t sleep in the bears’ beds

d.    Anything was not funny for the clown

e.    The bears didn’t lie to the clown

23.  Why did the clown go further into the woods ?  Because …….

a.    he went there to look after the girl.

b.    he went there to seek the girl.

c.    he went there to watch the girl.

d.    he went there to look at the girl.

e.    he went there to have the girl.

24.  What is the communicative purpose of the text above ?

a.    to entertain the readers

b.    to discuss among something

c.    to describe something in the past

d.    to retell a past event

e.    to explain the process of something

25.  The best title for the text above is ……..

a.    the girl with the golden hair

b.    the girl and her grandmother

c.    the clown who lost his laugh

d.    the grizzly bears

e.    the clown was sad

26.  The clown thought this was very funny and started to laugh.

The antonym of the underlined word is ………..

a.    humorous                                c.  strange                               e.  curious

b.    serious                         d.  weird

Answer the following questions based on the text above !

27.  Why did the clown go into the woods ? 

28.  Why didn’t the clown think anything was funny anymore ?

29.  How did the clown find his laugh again ?

30.  Where did the clown meet the girl with golden hair ?

31.  The characters in the text above are …………….

TEXT 8

Once, three fish lived in a pond. One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond and saw the fish. “ This pond is full of fish”, they told each other excitedly. “ We have never fished here before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our nets and catch these fish !” so saying, the fishermen left.             When the eldest of the three fish heard this, he was troubled. He called the other fish together and said, “ Did you hear what the fishermen said ? We must leave this pond at once. The fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all !” The second of three fish agreed. “ You are right, “ he said. “ We must leave the pond.”             But the youngest fish laughed, “ You are worrying without reason,” he said. “ We have lived in this pond all our lives, and no fisherman has ever come here. Why should these men return ? I am not going anywhere – my luck will keep me safe.”             The eldest of the fish left the pond that very evening with his entire family. The second fish saw the fishermen coming in the distance early next morning and left the pond at once with all his family. The third fish refused to leave even then.             The fishermen arrived and caught all the fish left in the pond. The third fish’s luck did not help him – he too was caught and killed.

32. What is the topic of the story ?

a.    The fishermen

b.    The cruel fishermen

c.    The three fish

d.    Wise fish

e.    Life in the pond

33.  Which of the following is NOT the moral of the story ?

a.    Worrying without reason is unwise

b.    Act as soon as possible whenever a problem is approaching

c.    It is not enough to rely on luck

d.    Stay out of troubles

e.    If you see a danger ahead of you and act before it arrives, you will be saved

34.  The fishermen did not catch the fish that every evening because ……

a.    they did not bring their fishing equipment

b.    they needed more people to catch the fish

c.    it was already dark so they could not see the fish clearly

d.    it was cold to fish at night

e.    they were in a hurry

35.  The word “ distance “ in the paragraph 4 has the same meaning as ….

a.    near                                                   

b.    close   

c.    within reach

d.    far

e.    approaching                           

36.  According to the text, which of the following is TRUE ?

a.    The fishermen had fished and come to the pond before.

b.    The fishermen never came back to the pond.

c.    All the fish were safe when the fishermen returned to the pond early morning.

d.    The youngest fish did not believe that the fishermen would return to the pond.

e.    No one of the fish knew when the fishermen returned to the pond.

Answer the following questions based on the text above !

37.  What is the writer’s aim in writing this text ?

38.  What is the main idea of the first paragraph ?

39.  When did the fishermen come to the pond ?

40.  Which fish that have been luck ?

41.  How did the fish solve their live ?

TEXT 9

Once up on a time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack. They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown up too old, his mother sent Jack to the market to sell it. On his way to the market, Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of great value and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.             Jack bought them happily. When he told his mother about this, his mother become so angry then she threw the beans out of the window.             When Jack woke up in the morning, he felt that the sun shining into a part of his room, but all the rest was quite dark and shady.             So he jumped to the window. What did he see ? The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack’s window. He opened the window and jumped to the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder.             He climbed and climbed till at last he reached the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.             Then Jack walked along the path leading to the castle. There was a big tall woman on the doorstep. Jack greeted her and asked for the giantess’ mercy to give him breakfast, because he felt very hungry. Although the giantess grumbled at first, finally she gave Jack a hunk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk.             Jack hadn’t finished when the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone’s coming. “ Oh ! It’s my husband ! “ cried the giantess, “ What on earth shall I do ? “             Hastily the giantess opened a very big cupboard and hid Jack there.

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42.  Where did Jack sell his cow ?

a.    At a castle                                                      

b.    At the market                                     

c.    At the giant’s castle

d.    At the butcher’s house

e.    On his way to the market

43.  What is the story about ?

a.    Jack and a butcher                                        

b.    Jack and the giantess                        

c.    Jack and the bean stalk

d.    A poor widow and his son

e.    The giantess and her husband

44.  “ Oh ! It’s my husband ! “ cried the giantess, “ What on earth shall I do ? “ (Par. 7)

From the sentence we know that the giantess is . . . her husband.

a.    afraid of                                              

b.    angry with                                          

c.    annoyed with

d.    fed up with

e.    displeased with

45.  Jack’s mother looked very furious when Jack told that  . . . .

a.    the beans were precious                    

b.    the butcher brought his cow  

c.    he had sold his cow to a butcher       

d.    he traded his cow for the beans          

e.    he met a butcher on his way to   the market

46.  What do we learn from the text ?

a.    Sincerity makes Jack get something precious

b.    Jack’s mother was a furious mother

c.    Poverty makes people hopeless

d.    The giantess took pity on Jack

e.    Jack was an innocent boy

TEXT 10

Once, on a dark, cold winter’s night, a jackal wandered into a village looking for food. The jackal was very hungry. The winter had been long and hard, and there was no food left in the forest. “ Perhaps,” said the jackal to himself, “ I will find something to eat in the village.”             The jackal soon found a rubbish heap in the village. He began sniffing and scratching and rummaging about in the rubbish, looking for scraps to eat. Soon he was making such a noise that the village dogs heard him.             Now, these dogs did not like jackal. They began barking and growling, and attacked the jackal from all sides. They scratched and bit the jackal with their sharp claws and big teeth. Terrified, the poor jackal ran from the dogs as fast as he could, through the dark deserted streets of the village. But the dogs did not give up – they ran after him, growling and snarling and barking even more loudly.             The jackal did not know what to do. He did not dare to shop, and he knew he could not run for much longer. Suddenly he saw the wall of a courtyard before him. Without waiting to think he jumped over the wall, and straight into a large pot of indigo dye ! The dye had been left there by a dyer, all ready to be used in the morning. The jackal was now dyed indigo colour !

47.  What is the main subject of the story ?

48.  What did the jackal wander into a village for ?

49.  What did the jackal find ?

50.  What attacked the jackal ?

51.  What finally happened in the end of the story ?

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TEXT 11

Once, on a dark, cold winter’s night, a jackal wandered into a village looking for food. The jackal was very hungry. The winter had been long and hard, and there was no food left in the forest. “ Perhaps,” said the jackal to himself, “ I will find something to eat in the village.”             The jackal soon found a rubbish heap in the village. He began sniffing and scratching and rummaging about in the rubbish, looking for scraps to eat. Soon he was making such a noise that the village dogs heard him.             Now, these dogs did not like jackal. They began barking and growling, and attacked the jackal from all sides. They scratched and bit the jackal with their sharp claws and big teeth. Terrified, the poor jackal ran from the dogs as fast as he could, through the dark deserted streets of the village. But the dogs did not give up – they ran after him, growling and snarling and barking even more loudly.             The jackal did not know what to do. He did not dare to shop, and he Once there was a farmer from Laos. Every morning and every evening he ploughed his field with his buffalo.             One day, a tiger saw the farmer and his buffalo working. The tiger was surprised to see a big animal listening to a small animal. He wanted to know more about the buffalo and the man.             After the man went home, the tiger spoke to the buffalo, “ You are so big and strong. Why do you do everything the man tells you ?” The buffalo answered, “ Oh, the man is very intelligent. “ The tiger asked, “ Can you tell me how intelligent he is ?”  “ No, I can’t tell you,” said the buffalo, “ But you can ask him.”             So, the next day the tiger said to the man, “ Can I see your intelligence ?” But the man answered, “ It’s at home.”  “ Can you go and get it ?” asked the tiger. “ Yes,” said the man, “ But I’m afraid you will kill my buffalo when I am away. Can I tie you to a tree ?”             After the man tied the tiger to a tree, he didn’t go home to get his intelligence. He took his plough and hit the tiger. Then he said, “Now you know about my intelligence even you haven’t seen it.”

           

52.  What is the purpose of the text ?

53.  What does the text tell us about ?

54.  What cause did the tiger surprise ?

55.  Why did the tiger want to know more about the buffalo and the man ?

56.  When did the tiger see them ?

57.  Who was very intelligent ?

58.  What tense does the text mostly use ?

59.  Will the tiger kill the buffalo ? Why ?

60.  Was the tiger die ?