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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.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • B.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  • C.How the Constitution was written
2.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 are the oldest maps of America
  • C.They were painted on the Moon
3.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
4.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
5.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
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 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
8.Why do people around the world still read Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?
  • A.They are true news reports
  • B.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  • C.They are the laws of Denmark

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  2. 2.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  3. 3.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  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 carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  8. 8.Families in many countries share and retell his stories

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