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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 Violin in the Loft

Nobody in our family plays anything. So the violin in the loft was a mystery for eleven years. Then Great-Aunt Sylvie came for Christmas and saw the case on the table. She went very quiet. "That was my brother's," she said. "He played in a café in Marseille before the war." She opened it. Three strings had gone, and the bridge lay loose in the bottom of the case. She did not play it. She held it under her chin for about ten seconds, put it back, and closed the lid. Then she asked for more potatoes and did not mention it again.

  1. 1. Why does it matter that this happens at Christmas?
  2. 2. How long had the violin been a mystery?
  3. 3. What was wrong with the violin?
  4. 4. Whose violin was it?
2.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. What is the only light in the room?
  3. 3. How does the setting build the mood?
  4. 4. When does Priya say the object was last there?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The family is together, which is why Sylvie is there to recognise the case at all. 2. Eleven years. 3. Three strings had gone and the bridge lay loose in the case. 4. Great-Aunt Sylvie's brother's.
  2. 2.1. The museum store room, at night. 2. A single desk lamp. 3. Night, boxes everywhere and one desk lamp make it tense and uncertain. 4. Tuesday.

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