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Choosing the Representative Image is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on identifying the image that carries a text's meaning, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Choosing the Representative Image

RL.5.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Orpheus Looks Back

Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen. When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept. The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light. He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word. Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round. She was there. That was the last he saw of her.

  1. 1. Quote accurately the phrase that shows how extraordinary his playing was.
  2. 2. Quote the words that show what he had to go on.
  3. 3. What single image would represent this myth?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Pandora

The gods made Pandora and gave her, between them, everything: beauty, skill, a voice, curiosity. They also gave her a jar, and told her not to open it. They did not say what was in it. She kept it for a long time. The story is usually told as though she opened it immediately. She did not. When she did lift the lid, out came sickness, hunger, grief and every trouble that has since been ordinary. She got the lid back on with one thing still inside. That thing was hope. And people have argued for three thousand years about whether keeping it in was a mercy or the cruellest part of all.

  1. 1. Quote the phrase that states the three-thousand-year dispute.
  2. 2. Quote accurately the words that correct the usual telling.
  3. 3. What single image would represent this myth?

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Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "rivers changed course to listen". 2. "he had only the king's word". 3. Orpheus turning, with daylight ten paces ahead of him.
  2. 2.1. "whether keeping it in was a mercy or the cruellest part of all". 2. "The story is usually told as though she opened it immediately. She did not." 3. The lid pressed back down with one thing still inside.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.