Read the following excerpt from "Ellis Island” by Barbara Davis-Pyle.And there in the harbor the great copper cook called Liberty stands ready,her recipe in hand.They say it’s a torch she is holding,But I think that it’s really a spoon.

The excerpt describes a great copper figure named Liberty standing in the harbor and holding something people mistake for a torch. This points to the Statue of Liberty, which stands in New York Harbor and holds a torch. The speaker playfully imagines the torch as a spoon, so the correct choice is the Statue of Liberty.

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