Read the following information and answer the questions below. MOUNT RUSHMORE National Memorial North America S. Dakota, U.S. 1927 "Carved upon the mighty mountain, The heroes' faces, pale In the misty moonlight." Emiko Takase Matsumoto Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills in the Southwestern part of South Dakota, is a spectacular sculpture carved out of a granite mountainside portraying Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The sculpture came about as a suggestion by Doane Robinson in 1923, who was director of the South Dakota Historical Society and the mountain was established as a national memorial on October 1, 1925. The work was designed by Gutzon Borglum in 1927 and continued by his son Lincoln after Borglum's death in 1941. Each presidential face is about 60 feet high. 1. Mount Rushmore is located in the state of __________ . 2. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and __________ are carved into stone. 3. The face are carved out of a very hard stone called __________ . 4. The Mount Rushmore face were designed by __________ . Your score is out of 4
MOUNT RUSHMORE National Memorial North America S. Dakota, U.S. 1927 "Carved upon the mighty mountain, The heroes' faces, pale In the misty moonlight." Emiko Takase Matsumoto Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills in the Southwestern part of South Dakota, is a spectacular sculpture carved out of a granite mountainside portraying Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The sculpture came about as a suggestion by Doane Robinson in 1923, who was director of the South Dakota Historical Society and the mountain was established as a national memorial on October 1, 1925. The work was designed by Gutzon Borglum in 1927 and continued by his son Lincoln after Borglum's death in 1941. Each presidential face is about 60 feet high. 1. Mount Rushmore is located in the state of __________ . 2. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and __________ are carved into stone. 3. The face are carved out of a very hard stone called __________ . 4. The Mount Rushmore face were designed by __________ . Your score is out of 4