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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.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How the Constitution was written
  • B.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • C.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
2.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How city children rode subways
  • B.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • C.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
3.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So only rich people could see them
  • B.So the paintings could stay hidden
  • C.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
4.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
5.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  • B.It was the first newspaper in America
  • C.It was the first map of Boston
6.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It was made in a factory in Europe
  • B.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  • C.It shows the Moon landing
7.What does the Statue of Liberty stand for to many immigrants?
  • A.The end of a war with France
  • B.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  • C.A warning to stay away
8.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.They are true news reports
  • B.They are the laws of Denmark
  • C.Families in many countries share and retell his stories

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  2. 2.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  3. 3.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  4. 4.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  5. 5.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  6. 6.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  7. 7.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  8. 8.Families in many countries share and retell his stories

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