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Questions and Key Details is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on answering across a story from its stated details, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.1. 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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Questions and Key Details

RL.3.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Museum Key (a scene from a play)

SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp. PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf. JON: You are sure it was this shelf? PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure. JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday. PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space. (Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.) JON: That is worse. PRIYA: I know.

  1. 1. Where is this scene set?
  2. 2. How does the setting build the mood?
  3. 3. When does Priya say the object was last there?
  4. 4. What is the only light in the room?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Fox and the Well

A fox leaned too far over a well and fell in. The water was shallow, but the walls were smooth and far too high to climb. He was still sitting there when a goat came by and looked down. "Is the water good?" asked the goat. "The best I have ever tasted," said the fox. "Come down and see." The goat jumped in. The fox climbed onto the goat's back, sprang out, and trotted off. "Wait!" called the goat. "How do I get out?" "You should have thought about that," said the fox, "before you jumped."

  1. 1. How did the fox escape?
  2. 2. Why could the fox not climb out?
  3. 3. How did the fox get into the well?
  4. 4. Where does this story take place?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The museum store room, at night. 2. Night, boxes everywhere and one desk lamp make it tense and uncertain. 3. Tuesday. 4. A single desk lamp.
  2. 2.1. He climbed onto the goat's back and sprang out. 2. The walls were smooth and far too high. 3. He leaned too far over and fell in. 4. At a well with smooth, high walls and shallow water at the bottom.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.