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What Art and Stories Tell Us is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on what writers' and artists' work shows about life in the past, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.2.3-5. 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 students 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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What Art and Stories Tell Us

D2.His.2.3-5

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1.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.What will happen in the future
  • B.Exactly what everyone was thinking
  • C.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
2.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So only rich people could see them
  • B.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • C.So the paintings could stay hidden
3.Why are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They are the oldest maps of America
  • B.They were painted on the Moon
  • C.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
4.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How city children rode subways
  • B.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • C.How astronauts trained for the Moon
5.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show life in ancient Rome
  • B.They show the first Thanksgiving
  • C.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
6.What does the Statue of Liberty stand for to many immigrants?
  • A.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  • B.A warning to stay away
  • C.The end of a war with France
7.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  • B.They are the laws of Denmark
  • C.They are true news reports
8.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first map of Boston
  • B.It was the first newspaper in America
  • C.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  2. 2.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  3. 3.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  4. 4.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  5. 5.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  6. 6.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  7. 7.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  8. 8.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.2.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.