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Quote Accurately is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on quoting the exact words that support an answer, 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, 24 of them with 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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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

Quote Accurately

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. Quote the phrase that states the three-thousand-year dispute.
  2. 2. Quote accurately the words that correct the usual telling.
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. Quote accurately the item in the first stanza that is not an object.
  2. 2. Quote the line that shows the given-away things are forgotten.

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Answer key — Quote Accurately

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "whether keeping it in was a mercy or the cruellest part of all". 2. "The story is usually told as though she opened it immediately. She did not."
  2. 2.1. "the habit of turning lights off". 2. "I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street".

More practice for RL.5.1

Quote the text exactly when explaining what it says and what it implies.

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