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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 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
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 the paintings could stay hidden
  • B.So only rich people could see them
  • C.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
4.Why are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They were painted on the Moon
  • B.They are the oldest maps of America
  • C.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
5.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first newspaper in America
  • B.It was the first map of Boston
  • C.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
6.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show the first Thanksgiving
  • B.They show life in ancient Rome
  • C.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
7.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.What will happen in the future
  • B.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  • C.Exactly what everyone was thinking
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 farmers used tractors in 1990
  • C.How the Pilgrims crossed the ocean

LessonPrint · D2.His.2.3-5 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  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 Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  5. 5.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  6. 6.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  7. 7.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  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.