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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.

The Mill: Mr Whately's Account

I did not close the mill. The mill closed. For eleven years I put my own money in. In 1979 I sold my house and moved into the office above the weaving floor, and nobody knew that but my accountant. People say I should have told them earlier. I have thought about that more than they have. If I had said in January that we might not last the year, half the workforce would have left by February, and then we certainly would not have. I held on until the day I could not pay them. Then I told them. I have been told this was cowardice. I would call it arithmetic.

  1. 1. Put the events in order.
  2. 2. What does the office above the weaving floor tell you?
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. The myth gives almost no setting. What is the effect?
  2. 2. Put the events in order.

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Answer key — Compare Two Settings or Events

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  1. 1.1. Eleven years of private funding, selling the house in 1979, holding on, then telling them the day he could not pay. 2. That he lived on the premises — he had nowhere else after selling the house.
  2. 2.1. It reads as an explanation of the world rather than an event in one place. 2. 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.

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