COUNTRY STUDIES QUIZ

INTERMEDIATE

TASK 8. Can you restore the story?

Here is a story about the Statue of Liberty. The printer got the story mixed up.
Can you arrange the parts in proper order? The first one is done for you (J).

A. The crates were loaded on a French warship, the Isere.

B. The idea for the Statue started in tbe Old World.

C. The French people gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1886.

D. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi worked on the project with great zeal.

E. The Statue of Liberty was built and completed in Paris, France.

F. The ship sailed through the entrance of New York Harbor and arrived off Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

G. The powerful frame of the Statue is made of iron and steel. It was designed by a great French engineer Alexandra Gustave Eiffel.

H. ft took twenty-one years from the birth of the idea to the erection of the great statue.

I. The Statue of Liberty was put together again and stood proud and tail on Bedloe's Island.

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J. A majestic statue stands in New York Harbor welcoming all who come to American shores.

K. The people of France provided all the money for the Statue of Liberty. The people of the United States were supposed to pay for the pedestal on which the statue would stand. Joseph Pulitzer undertook a campaign in his newspaper, tbe New York World. Every day he published a donors' list.

L. The last stone of the pedestal was swung into place on April 22,1886.

M. The pieces were packed in 214 crates and put aboard a train that went from Paris to Rouen.

N. In l865, in France, some guests Were enjoying dinner at the home of Professor Edouard de Laboulaye. He suggested making a monument to memorialize the friendship between his country and the US.

O. To be shipped across the ocean to the US. the Statue was taken apart, piece by piece.