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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.

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. How does the underworld setting shape the test?
  2. 2. Put the events in order.
2.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. Where is the speaker in the last stanza?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the piano goes to a school, ten years pass, the buttons are kept.

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Answer key — Compare Two Settings or Events

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  1. 1.1. The dead are silent, so he cannot check she is there — the setting is what makes the condition unbearable. 2. Eurydice dies, Orpheus plays his way past the ferryman, the dog and the king, climbs for a day, and turns ten paces from the light.
  2. 2.1. In their own hall, ten years later. 2. The buttons are kept, the piano goes to a school, ten years pass.

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