TUGAS TUTORIAL KE-2

MATA KULIAH READING IV PBIS4310

Amilia Laraswati W. P
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Read the text and answer the questions! This text for questions 1-5.

The legend of Coban Rondo

Once upon a time there lived a just married couple, Dewi Anjarwati from Kawi
mountain and Raden Baron Kusuma from Anjasmoro mountain who wanted to go for
honey moon.

Because of before selapan (40 days) marriage, their parents forbade them to go.
However, they insisted on leaving and facing any possibilities that might happen. On the
way, they were surprised by the appearance of Joko Lelono, who was not clear where he
came from. It seemed Joko lelono fell in love with her and tried to grab her away.

The fighting was inevitable. Raden baron asked his punokawan (servant) who
accompanied them to hide Dewi Anjarwati at the place where there was coban (water
fall). The tough fighting caused both of them passed away. And Dewi Anjarwati became
rondo (widow).

Since then, Coban Rondo was known as the place where Dewi Anjarwati had been
waiting for his beloved husband. It is believed that the big stone under the water fall was
the place where Dewi Anjarwati sat on.

Questions number 1-5 are based on the reading text, while questions 6-10 are based
on the content of the modules that you learned in session 4 and 5.

Scores
NO Questions
1. What were the names of the couple in the
story? 5

Answer :
Dewi Anjarwati from Kawi mountain and
Raden Baron Kusuma from Anjasmoro
mountain
2. Who was Joko Lelono? 5
Answer :
Joko lelono fell in love with Dewi Anjarwati and tried to

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3. Why did Raden Baron Kusuma and Joko Lelono 5

fight?
Answer :
Because Joko Lelono wanted to grab Dewi Anjarwati
away from Raden Baron. Joko Lelono has fell in love
with her.
4. How is the ending of the story?
Answer :
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Both Joko Lelono and Raden Baron Kusuma passed
away . And Dewi Anjarwati became a widow
5. What is the moral value of the story?
Answer : 5
Don’t make a decision when getting angry. It will make
you regret.

6. What is historical story? 10

Answer :
The legend of Coban Rondo

7. Write the title of two historical stories that you have ever read 10
and also write the name of the outhors.
Answer :

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Memoirs

of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and The Accursed by Joyce
Carol Oates
8. Write at least four of the elements or characteristics of 20
biography?

Answer :
Name, date and place of birth of the
individual. Personal life. Education and occupation.
9. What do you know about science fiction? 10
Answer :
Usually futuristic, science fiction speculates about
alternative ways of life made possible by
technological change, and hence has sometimes
been called "speculative fiction." Like fantasy, and
often associated with it,

10. Write a paragraph (summary) about one of science fiction 25

stories that you have ever read. Write also the author and
title of the book.

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Summary of science fiction

. E. M. Forster, ‘The Machine Stops’.

Is this the most prophetic story of the
twentieth century? Published in
1909 and showing Forster’s disdain
for technological advancement and
the way it would make our lives
poorer, this story attracted plenty
of new readers in 2020 when so
many people’s lives ‘went virtual’.

It’s all here: Zoom, self-isolation, and

even the fear of other human
beings. Controlling everything is
‘the Machine’, a mysterious
technological entity worshipped as
a god by many of the inhabitants of
this future Earth

First, a brief summary of the plot of ‘The

Machine Stops’. In the future, mankind dwells
underground where they rely on the Machine
for all their needs. Everyone owns a book,
referred to as ‘the Book’, which is not a bible
but rather a sort of instruction manual telling
people about the Machine.
The narrator tells us that the ‘clumsy business
of public gatherings had been long since
abandoned’. People stay in their own rooms,
under the ground, and interact via technology
– living a virtual rather than face-to-face
existence in both their education and
socialising. People ‘isolate themselves’ when
they go to sleep, unplugging themselves from
this technological world of
telecommunication.

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A mother and lecturer, Vashti, who lives in the
southern hemisphere, talks to her son Kuno,
who is in the northern hemisphere, via a round
plate which functions as a sort of videophone.
Kuno wants his mother to come and visit him
where he lives in the northern hemisphere, as
he wishes to experience the stars, not from an
airship, but while standing on the surface of
the earth and directly exposed to them.
However, Vasthi vacillates and initially refuses
to go to see him, as she is reluctant to leave
her room.
Eventually, Vashti gives in and arranges to go
and visit her son, and makes the journey via an
airship. We are told that few people travel
anywhere these days, because everywhere on
the planet is virtually identical to everywhere
else. Airships have been preserved from a
former age when people used to travel to visit
things, whereas now everything is brought to
them in their rooms .

Forster’s narrator tells us that the event which

triggered the ‘collapse of humanity’, however,
was when people’s beds failed to materialise
in their rooms when they were summoned.
From there, everything gets worse, with
lecturers reassuring everyone that things are
sufficient and the population should just carry
on without sleep or clean air or light.
Maximum scores 100

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