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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 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
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 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
  • C.How farmers used tractors in 1990
3.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
4.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How city children rode subways
  • B.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • C.How astronauts trained for the Moon
5.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So only rich people could see them
  • B.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • C.So the paintings could stay hidden
6.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
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.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • B.How the Constitution was written
  • C.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  2. 2.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  3. 3.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  4. 4.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  5. 5.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  6. 6.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  7. 7.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  8. 8.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem

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