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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. What single image would represent this poem?
  3. 3. Quote accurately the line that describes the bell in the barn.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Refusal

The rule was that everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly. Kemi told Mr Adeyemi she would not. Not could not — would not. He asked why. She said that if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision. He could have made her. Instead he asked whether she would run the sound desk, which nobody had volunteered for and which meant she would be there for every rehearsal. She said yes. At the assembly she was at the back, in the dark, and every cue was perfect. Her mother asked afterwards why she had not been in it. Kemi said she had been.

  1. 1. Quote the words in which Kemi refuses to explain.
  2. 2. What single image would represent this story?
  3. 3. Quote accurately the distinction Kemi draws in the second paragraph.

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Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "still the sound the masons heard goes out at nine". 2. The green bell hanging in a barn among gears. 3. "mute as a stone among the gears".
  2. 2.1. "if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision." 2. Kemi at the sound desk in the dark at the back of the hall. 3. "Not could not — would not."

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