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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 Night the Lamp Went Out

Grace's father kept the lighthouse. On the worst night of the winter, the lamp went out. He was ill in bed. Grace was eleven. She carried the oil up ninety-seven steps in the dark, twice, because the can was too heavy to lift full. Her arms shook so much on the second trip that she had to sit down halfway. She trimmed the wick the way she had watched a hundred times. She struck the match on the fourth try. By the time the light swung out across the water, three ships had already turned back. Grace never knew whether she had been in time. She decided not to think about it.

  1. 1. How does the setting make the events harder?
  2. 2. Why did she make the trip twice?
  3. 3. How many tries did the match take?
  4. 4. How many steps did Grace climb?
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. How does the setting build the mood?
  2. 2. Where is this scene set?
  3. 3. What is the only light in the room?
  4. 4. When does Priya say the object was last there?

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Answer key — Questions and Key Details

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is the worst night of the winter, dark, with ninety-seven steps to climb. 2. The can was too heavy to lift full. 3. Four. 4. Ninety-seven.
  2. 2.1. Night, boxes everywhere and one desk lamp make it tense and uncertain. 2. The museum store room, at night. 3. A single desk lamp. 4. Tuesday.

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