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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 does the Statue of Liberty stand for to many immigrants?
  • A.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  • B.The end of a war with France
  • C.A warning to stay away
2.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.Exactly what everyone was thinking
  • B.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  • C.What will happen in the future
3.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • B.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • C.How city children rode subways
4.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • B.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  • C.How the Constitution was written
5.How did Ansel Adams's photographs help America's wild places?
  • A.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  • B.They sold land to mining companies
  • C.They helped build highways through the parks
6.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.They are true news reports
  • B.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  • C.They are the laws of Denmark
7.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • B.So only rich people could see them
  • C.So the paintings could stay hidden
8.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

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  2. 2.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  3. 3.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  4. 4.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  5. 5.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  6. 6.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  7. 7.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  8. 8.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North

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