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

The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account

We knew by the thread. You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke. So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind. I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out. He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.

  1. 1. Quote accurately the words in which Ivy states her grievance.
  2. 2. What single image would represent this account, and why?
  3. 3. Quote the exchange that closes the account.

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Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Orpheus turning, with daylight ten paces ahead of him. 2. "he had only the king's word". 3. "rivers changed course to listen".
  2. 2.1. "What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind." 2. A broken thread on a loom — it is how they knew, and what the mill came to. 3. "Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say."

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