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Explicit and Inferred is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on separating what is stated from what is implied, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.1. 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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Explicit and Inferred

RL.5.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. What did the gods give Pandora?
  2. 2. Why does the text mention that the gods did not say what was in it?
  3. 3. What was left inside the jar?
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. What did Ivy tell her sister?
  2. 2. What told the workers something was wrong?
  3. 3. Why does Ivy say "I could have been looking"?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Beauty, skill, a voice and curiosity — and a jar. 2. Because it shifts responsibility — she could not weigh a risk she was not told about. 3. Hope.
  2. 2.1. That the mill would see her out. 2. The good cotton stopped coming and the cheap thread broke. 3. She is accepting part of the responsibility, which makes the rest of her complaint stronger.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.