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Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag 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 fi rst thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he foud all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up 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 fi st towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” 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 threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

Why was each monkey wearing a cap on their head?

• They liked them

• They liked wearing caps

• They were imitating the cap seller

• They were teasing the cap seller

• They had stolen the caps

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag 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 fi rst thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he foud all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up 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 fi st towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” 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 threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

What is the moral value of the text?

• Monkeys are clever animals

• Put your belongings in a safe place

• Kindness must be possessed by everyone

• Foolishness is a source of faulty

• You have to know who you are talking to

Once upon a time, a mouse who always slept on the land had found an unlucky chance for the intimate accountance with a frog who lived for the mouse herd in the water. One day, the frog was intent on making mischief. He tight the foot of the mouse tightly to his arm. Once joined together, the frog lady’s friend, the male went to the meadow where usually searched for food. He gradually led the mouse for the pond in which he lived and when reaching the bank of the water, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the mouse in with him. The frog really enjoyed the water and swam croaking about, ignoring the dead mouse body floating about on the surface. A hawk observed the floating mouse from the sky and flied down and grabbed with his talon carrying back to his nest. The frog still being fasten to the leg of the mouse was also carried over as prisoner and was eaten by the hawk.

Who lived in the pond?

• The poor mouse

• The prisoners

• The frog

• The mouse

• The hawk

Once upon a time, a mouse who always slept on the land had found an unlucky chance for the intimate accountance with a frog who lived for the mouse herd in the water. One day, the frog was intent on making mischief. He tight the foot of the mouse tightly to his arm. Once joined together, the frog lady’s friend, the male went to the meadow where usually searched for food. He gradually led the mouse for the pond in which he lived and when reaching the bank of the water, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the mouse in with him. The frog really enjoyed the water and swam croaking about, ignoring the dead mouse body floating about on the surface. A hawk observed the floating mouse from the sky and flied down and grabbed with his talon carrying back to his nest. The frog still being fasten to the leg of the mouse was also carried over as prisoner and was eaten by the hawk.

How did the hawk caught the mouse?

• By using his beak

• By using his talons

• By shouting loudly

• By flying in the sky

• By observing a mouse

A long time ago, in the village in East Kalimantan. There lived a rich family of pak Pesut. Everybody knew him, not because of his wealth, but because of his stinginess. During a long dry season, the villagers were planning to leave the village and look for the place that had enough water for cultivating rice. Some villagers went to pak Pesut's house to inform him about a new place. He refused to join them believing he had enough rice to survive before their stock of rice run out. One morning, when pak Pesut's wife was cooking their last piece of rice, a beggar came to his house, he asked for some rice but pak Pesut lied to him that he didn't have any rice. Pak Pesut was worried thet the beggar would steal the rice, so he told his family to eat hot rice from the cooking pot. It was so hot that they felt their mouth were burning and they jump into the river, the beggar saw that and prayed to God, amazingly pak Pesut's family slowly changed into fish that looked like dolphins. Since then everybody called that fish "Pesut Fish".

What did the beggar ask for?

• The cooking pot

• The stinginess

• The wealth

• Rice

• The new place

A long time ago, in the village in East Kalimantan. There lived a rich family of pak Pesut. Everybody knew him, not because of his wealth, but because of his stinginess. During a long dry season, the villagers were planning to leave the village and look for the place that had enough water for cultivating rice. Some villagers went to pak Pesut's house to inform him about a new place. He refused to join them believing he had enough rice to survive before their stock of rice run out. One morning, when pak Pesut's wife was cooking their last piece of rice, a beggar came to his house, he asked for some rice but pak Pesut lied to him that he didn't have any rice. Pak Pesut was worried thet the beggar would steal the rice, so he told his family to eat hot rice from the cooking pot. It was so hot that they felt their mouth were burning and they jump into the river, the beggar saw that and prayed to God, amazingly pak Pesut's family slowly changed into fish that looked like dolphins. Since then everybody called that fish "Pesut".

What did pak Pesut ask his family to eat hot rice?

• The family were hungry

• It was the last rice they had

• He didn't want the rice to be stolen

• The rice was still fresh from the pot

• Pak Pesut wished to share with the villagers

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom named Umbul Wening. A king has a beautiful daughter named Dewi Arum. She liked to swim and could spend hours swimming. One day, the people in the kingdom suffered the terrible illness. One night, the kind had a dream. In his dream, he saw an old man who said the the illness could be healed by a flower in Krenda wahana jungle and Dewi Arum was the only one who could get it.

After a very difficult journey, the princess found the pond but the king got angry with her for going on the journey and cursed her, "you don't deserve to be the princess and live in the palace. You deserve to live here in the pond," said the king. The princess disappeared and in her palace a beautiful flower rose. The king regretted what he had said but it was too late. Then, he brought the flower to the palace and everybody got cured. Till today, people called it the Lotus.

What did the princess Dewi Arum find in the jungle?

• The cure for the illness

• Beautiful lady

• A lotus flower

• A pond

• A rose flower

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom named Umbul Wening. A king has a beautiful daughter named Dewi Arum. She liked to swim and could spend hours swimming. One day, the people in the kingdom suffered the terrible illness. One night, the kind had a dream. In his dream, he saw an old man who said the the illness could be healed by a flower in Krenda wahana jungle and Dewi Arum was the only one who could get it.

After a very difficult journey, the princess found the pond but the king got angry with her for going on the journey and cursed her, "you don't deserve to be the princess and live in the palace. You deserve to live here in the pond," said the king. The princess disappeared and in her palace a beautiful flower rose. The king regretted what he had said but it was too late. Then, he brought the flower to the palace and everybody got cured. Till today, people called it the Lotus.

What was the cure for the illness?

• Jungle plant

• The king’s spell

• The king’s dream

• The beautiful flower

• Pond’s water

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