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Compare Two Settings or Events is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on comparing settings and events within a text, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.3. 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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Compare Two Settings or Events

RL.5.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What We Kept

Stanza one: We kept the table, which was too big, and the clock, which had never gone, and a tin of buttons nobody wanted, and the habit of turning lights off. Stanza two: We gave away the good chairs. We gave away the china, all of it. We gave away the piano to a school because none of us could play. Stanza three: Ten years on, I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street. But I turn the hall light off behind me every single time, and think of her.

  1. 1. Put these in order: the piano goes to a school, ten years pass, the buttons are kept.
  2. 2. Where is the speaker in the last stanza?
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. Put the events in order.
  2. 2. The myth gives almost no setting. What is the effect?

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Answer key — Compare Two Settings or Events

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  1. 1.1. The buttons are kept, the piano goes to a school, ten years pass. 2. In their own hall, ten years later.
  2. 2.1. The gods make her and give the gifts, she is given the jar, she keeps it a long time, she lifts the lid, she closes it with hope inside. 2. It reads as an explanation of the world rather than an event in one place.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.