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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.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
2.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
3.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
4.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.They are the laws of Denmark
  • B.They are true news reports
  • C.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
5.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
6.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
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 was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first map of Boston
  • B.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  • C.It was the first newspaper in America

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  2. 2.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  3. 3.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  4. 4.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  5. 5.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  6. 6.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  7. 7.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  8. 8.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems

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