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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.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  • B.It was made in a factory in Europe
  • C.It shows the Moon landing
3.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show life in ancient Rome
  • B.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  • C.They show the first Thanksgiving
4.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first newspaper in America
  • B.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  • C.It was the first map of Boston
5.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
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 the Constitution was written
  • C.How to farm wheat on the prairie
7.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
8.What does the Statue of Liberty stand for to many immigrants?
  • A.The end of a war with France
  • B.A warning to stay away
  • C.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  2. 2.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  3. 3.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  4. 4.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  5. 5.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  6. 6.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  7. 7.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  8. 8.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home

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