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Infer from the Evidence is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on choosing the conclusion a quoted piece of evidence supports, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.1. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students 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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Infer from the Evidence

RI.5.1

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Circle the right answer.

1.A text says: "People doing two tasks alternately take substantially longer." What can you infer?
  • A.People enjoy doing two tasks
  • B.Switching between tasks wastes time
  • C.Experiments about tasks are unreliable
2.A text says: "A mill closing often took a town's only employer." What can you infer?
  • A.Mill towns had many large employers
  • B.Mill towns were hit very hard by closures
  • C.Closures helped the local stores
3.A text says: "Milkmaids were known not to catch smallpox." What did Jenner infer?
  • A.Milk cures every disease
  • B.Something in their work was protecting them
  • C.Smallpox only affected cattle
4.A text says: "The final conversion took a single weekend and about four thousand men." What can you infer?
  • A.The work had been carefully planned
  • B.Nobody worked on the railway
  • C.The conversion happened by accident
5.A text says: "By the 1770s most tea drunk in Britain had been smuggled." What can you infer about the tax?
  • A.It was too low to matter
  • B.It was too high for most buyers to pay
  • C.It applied only to coffee
6.A text says: "The coffee house became somewhere to read newspapers and argue." What can you infer?
  • A.Coffee houses were kept silent
  • B.Coffee houses were places to share news and ideas
  • C.Newspapers were banned there
7.A text says: "Where firms did re-equip, they survived longer." What does this suggest?
  • A.New machines made mills close sooner
  • B.Every mill bought new machines
  • C.Low wages abroad were not the only cause of closures
8.A text says: "The river now is narrower, deeper and faster than the one that froze." What can you infer?
  • A.The river froze more often after 1831
  • B.London winters are now tropical
  • C.Changes to the river made freezing less likely

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Answer key — Infer from the Evidence

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Switching between tasks wastes time
  2. 2.Mill towns were hit very hard by closures
  3. 3.Something in their work was protecting them
  4. 4.The work had been carefully planned
  5. 5.It was too high for most buyers to pay
  6. 6.Coffee houses were places to share news and ideas
  7. 7.Low wages abroad were not the only cause of closures
  8. 8.Changes to the river made freezing less likely

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.5.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.