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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.

The Bell

Stanza one: The church has gone. They took the stone for walls and gateposts, load by load. Where the aisle was there is a field. Where the door was there is a road. Stanza two: The bell they could not sell or break. It hung in a barn for eighty years, green with the damp, out of the way, mute as a stone among the gears. Stanza three: Last spring they hung it in the school. It rings at nine and rings at three. The children do not know its age and ring it anyway, and it is free. Stanza four: So the building went, and the faith went, and the road runs where the door was cut, and still the sound the masons heard goes out at nine, and comes back, and stops.

  1. 1. Quote the words that connect the present sound to the past.
  2. 2. Quote accurately the line that describes the bell in the barn.
  3. 3. What single image would represent this poem?
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 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "still the sound the masons heard goes out at nine". 2. "mute as a stone among the gears". 3. The green bell hanging in a barn among gears.
  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.