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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 did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • B.So the paintings could stay hidden
  • C.So only rich people could see them
2.What do Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series paintings help us understand?
  • A.How the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
  • B.How farmers used tractors in 1990
  • C.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
3.How did Ansel Adams's photographs help America's wild places?
  • A.They sold land to mining companies
  • B.They helped build highways through the parks
  • C.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
4.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
5.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  • B.Exactly what everyone was thinking
  • C.What will happen in the future
6.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
7.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It shows the Moon landing
  • B.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  • C.It was made in a factory in Europe
8.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

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  2. 2.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  3. 3.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  4. 4.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  5. 5.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  6. 6.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  7. 7.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  8. 8.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries

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