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20. When will Vesuvius erupt?
every 200,000 years
every 2,000 years
every 20,000 years
every 20 years
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1. What kinds of historical evidence do we get from Pompeii?
casts of people, objects with inscriptions, Pliny's journal
there's no evidence
whale songs lyrics
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3. What was the approximate population of Pompeii?
20,000
60,000
40,000
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11. What new danger does the falling pumice and ash present?
frostbite
wild animal attacks
roofs caving in
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10. At what time does Admiral Pliny's fleet approach Pompeii?
5 am
5 pm
10 pm
midnight
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14. What does Pomponianus witness that night?
a lot of birds flying
a tornado
part of volcano explodes, pyroclastic flow, huge clouds of
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15. How did most die at Pompeii?
suffocation from toxic gases and ash
evaporated by heat
caught on fire
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7. Why would Pliny the Elder be especially interested in the eruption of the volcano?
studied nature and wrote about it
everyone knew he was crazy
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17. What was the fate of Pliny the Younger?
moved to asia
survived, wrote about the eruption
became a monk
invented the sandwich
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4. What component of the fuller's shop was so valuable that there was once a tax on it?
urine to clean clothes
diamonds for the queen
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13. Where does Fortunata, the fuller's wife, end up in her attempt to leave Pompeii?
gladiator house
bathhouse
library
bakery
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6. What is the Latin word for volcano?
no word for it b/c they didn't know what a volcano was
fulminare
volcano
lux brumalis
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18. In the initial 18 hours of the eruption how many tons of debris fell?
10 trillion tons
10 million tons
10 billion tons
10 tons
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