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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.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
2.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
3.What do Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series paintings help us understand?
  • A.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  • B.How the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
  • C.How farmers used tractors in 1990
4.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
5.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  • B.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • C.How the Constitution was written
6.Why are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They were painted on the Moon
  • B.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  • C.They are the oldest maps of America
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.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • B.How city children rode subways
  • C.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  2. 2.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  3. 3.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  4. 4.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  5. 5.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  6. 6.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  7. 7.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  8. 8.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s

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