Question

The statue of Liberty is a colossal and neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York

Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The Copeer statue, a gift from the people of France

to the people of the United States, was sesigne by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and

buit by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman liberty goddess.

She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata

inscribed in Roman numerals with “JULY IV MDCCLXXVI” (July4, 1776), the date of the U.S

Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of

freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Public access to the balcony around the torch has been barred for safety since 1916.

1) What does the robed woman represent?

2) Why is public access to the balcony around the torch barred?

3) Who designed the statue of Liberty?

4) What is inscribed on the tabula ansata?

5) Correct the following sentences.

i) She holds a torch about her head

ii) A broken chain lies at her feets.

6) With reference to the passage, write one proper noun each for the following.

Name of a person, name of a place, name of a month.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The statue was closed for renovation for much of 1938. ... Public access to the balcony surrounding the torch has been barred for ... Instead, he used a diadem, or crown, to top its