Question

Read the excerpt from A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and through the World of Art.

Answer 1

The glossary helps the reader understand that the carver paid attention to the small details of the sculpture, such as the cheeks and the noses.

What the author is saying in this text is that the sculptures are so precise that they are still impressive when you look at them up close, even though they were not meant to be exhibited directly on the floor, but on a high pedestal. The "jowls" and "muzzle" of the horse are the "things that could not have been seen when they were on their high perch," yet the carver paid as much attention to detail ("cut with as much care") when he sculpted them as if they were at eye level ("as though they had been made for the floor").

Answer 2

Answer:

B) the carver paid attention to the small details of the sculpture, such as the cheeks and the noses.

Explanation:

in their still room in the museum, we can see how beautifully they are carved. the jowls of the horse, its muzzle, the backs of the other gods – all things that could not have been seen when they were on their high perch – are cut with as much care as though they had been made for the floor of the great temple.