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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 only rich people could see them
  • C.So the paintings could stay hidden
2.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • B.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • C.How city children rode subways
3.How did Ansel Adams's photographs help America's wild places?
  • A.They sold land to mining companies
  • B.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  • C.They helped build highways through the parks
4.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show life in ancient Rome
  • B.They show the first Thanksgiving
  • C.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
5.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 the Constitution was written
  • C.How to farm wheat on the prairie
6.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 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
  • C.How farmers used tractors in 1990
7.What can a painting of daily life from long ago tell a historian?
  • A.What will happen in the future
  • B.Exactly what everyone was thinking
  • C.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
8.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It was made in a factory in Europe
  • B.It shows the Moon landing
  • C.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  2. 2.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  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.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  6. 6.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  7. 7.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  8. 8.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition

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