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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 are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They are the oldest maps of America
  • B.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  • C.They were painted on the Moon
2.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
3.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So the paintings could stay hidden
  • B.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • C.So only rich people could see them
4.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How the Constitution was written
  • B.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  • C.How to farm wheat on the prairie
5.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  • B.They show life in ancient Rome
  • C.They show the first Thanksgiving
6.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
7.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first map of Boston
  • B.It was the first newspaper in America
  • C.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
8.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.Exactly what everyone was thinking
  • B.What will happen in the future
  • C.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  2. 2.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  3. 3.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  4. 4.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  5. 5.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  6. 6.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  7. 7.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  8. 8.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time

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