Duties and Freedoms Together is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on rules that create duties and protect freedoms, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Civ.4.3-5. It prints 8 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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Duties and Freedoms Together

D2.Civ.4.3-5

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Circle the best answer.

1.Workhouses kept registers. What duty did that create?

A.The guardians had to record every admission
B.The poor had to write
C.The county had to build more

2.Why do rules usually create a duty and a freedom together?

A.Rules are written in pairs
B.A freedom for one person needs somebody else to be obliged
C.It makes them longer

3.A rule says tolls must be posted. What duty does it create?

A.Coal must be cheaper
B.Boats must go faster
C.The company must publish its charges

4.Railways needed an Act. What freedom did that protect?

A.The right to build track
B.A landowner's freedom not to have land taken without consent
C.The right to free travel

5.Fares had to be published. What duty and freedom?

A.No duty, no freedom
B.The duty to run trains, protecting freedom of speech
C.The duty to display prices, protecting the freedom to choose to travel or not

6.Workhouses kept registers. What freedom did that protect?

A.Freedom from work
B.Freedom from being admitted or refused without any record
C.Freedom to leave whenever

7.A rule says tolls must be posted. What freedom does it protect?

A.The company's freedom to charge anything
B.A boat owner's freedom to know the price before agreeing
C.The freedom to avoid tolls

8.Railways needed an Act. What duty did that create for the company?

A.To carry coal cheaply
B.To persuade Parliament before taking anybody's land
C.To lay track quickly

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Answer key — Duties and Freedoms Together

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

1.The guardians had to record every admission
2.A freedom for one person needs somebody else to be obliged
3.The company must publish its charges
4.A landowner's freedom not to have land taken without consent
5.The duty to display prices, protecting the freedom to choose to travel or not
6.Freedom from being admitted or refused without any record
7.A boat owner's freedom to know the price before agreeing
8.To persuade Parliament before taking anybody's land

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Civ.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.