Reading Strategies 6: Question 3
Which of the following is most likely a summarized statement about the
building of Mt. Rushmore?
Select one:
O
Mt. Rushmore should not be seen as a great monument to American leaders
but as a representation of how humans trample on the pristine beauty of nature.
The mountain should have been left in its natural state.
Mt. Rushmore is an impressive monument; however, it seems unfinished. The
sculptor originally planned to portray the presidents from the waist up but ran
out of funding to complete that section. The monument would have looked
better with its original design.
O
Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota features the faces of four notable American
Presidents. It took 14 years and the help of 400 workers for sculptor Gutzon
Borglum to complete the monument, which was purposed as a "Shrine of
Democracy."
O Mt. Rushmore required the work of 400 laborers to remove 450,000 tons of
rock. That means each laborer had to remove 1,125 tons of rock before the
carving could begin