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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 true news reports
  • B.Families in many countries share and retell his stories
  • C.They are the laws of Denmark
2.What do Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series paintings help us understand?
  • A.How the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
  • B.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  • C.How farmers used tractors in 1990
3.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 to farm wheat on the prairie
  • C.How the Constitution was written
4.What does the Statue of Liberty stand for to many immigrants?
  • A.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  • B.A warning to stay away
  • C.The end of a war with France
5.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
6.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
7.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 helped build highways through the parks
  • C.They sold land to mining companies
8.Why do historians study Dorothea Lange's photographs from the 1930s?
  • A.They show the first Thanksgiving
  • B.They show how families lived through the Great Depression
  • C.They show life in ancient Rome

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 9. 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.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  4. 4.Freedom, and a welcome to a new home
  5. 5.How people dressed, worked and lived at that time
  6. 6.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  7. 7.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  8. 8.They show how families lived through the Great Depression

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