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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 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
2.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  • B.It shows the Moon landing
  • C.It was made in a factory in Europe
3.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.They are the laws of Denmark
  • B.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  • C.They are true news reports
4.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
5.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • B.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • C.How city children rode subways
6.Why are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  • B.They were painted on the Moon
  • C.They are the oldest maps of America
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 the paintings could stay hidden
  • C.So only rich people could see them
8.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

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  2. 2.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  3. 3.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  4. 4.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  5. 5.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  6. 6.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  7. 7.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  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.