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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.

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. Why does the poem say the children "ring it anyway"?
  2. 2. When does the bell ring now?
  3. 3. How long did the bell hang in a barn?
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. Why does the text mention that the gods did not say what was in it?
  2. 2. What was left inside the jar?
  3. 3. Were the gods explicit about what was inside?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

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  1. 1.1. Because its history is irrelevant to its use now, which is the poem's argument. 2. At nine and at three. 3. Eighty years.
  2. 2.1. Because it shifts responsibility — she could not weigh a risk she was not told about. 2. Hope. 3. No — they told her not to open it but did not say what was in it.

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