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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.

Conker

First stanza: Inside the green and spiny case, packed in a lining soft as silk, it waits all summer in the dark and grows the colour of stained milk. Second stanza: Then autumn cracks the case in two. It falls. It hits the path and shines so hard and bright and newly made you cannot walk past it. Nobody can. Third stanza: By Sunday it is dull and cracked and lighter than it was before — a small brown stone inside a pocket, and no one wants it any more.

  1. 1. Where is the conker in the last stanza?
  2. 2. What is inside the green and spiny case?
  3. 3. What has happened to the conker by Sunday?
  4. 4. When does the case crack open?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 2. 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. Inside a pocket. 2. A conker. 3. It is dull, cracked and lighter than it was. 4. In autumn.

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