8. By mid-afternoon how many tons of pumice and ash have fallen on Pompeii?
100 million tons
100 billion tons
11. What new danger does the falling pumice and ash present?
frostbite
roofs caving in
wild animal attacks
19. How many people live near Vesuvius now?
3.5 million people
3.5 thousand people
3.5 trillion people
3.5 billion people
10. At what time does Admiral Pliny's fleet approach Pompeii?
5 am
midnight
5 pm
10 pm
6. What is the Latin word for volcano?
volcano
lux brumalis
fulminare
no word for it b/c they didn't know what a volcano was
17. What was the fate of Pliny the Younger?
survived, wrote about the eruption
moved to asia
became a monk
invented the sandwich
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
14. What does Pomponianus witness that night?
part of volcano explodes, pyroclastic flow, huge clouds of
a tornado
a lot of birds flying
18. In the initial 18 hours of the eruption how many tons of debris fell?
10 million tons
10 tons
10 trillion tons
10 billion tons
20. When will Vesuvius erupt?
every 20,000 years
every 2,000 years
every 200,000 years
every 20 years
5. What time of day did the eruption occur?
5 P.M. approx.
7 P.M. approx.
1 P.M. approx.
3 P.M. approx.
13. Where does Fortunata, the fuller's wife, end up in her attempt to leave Pompeii?
gladiator house
bathhouse
bakery
library
16. What was the fate of Pliny the Elder?
had a heart attack
was murdered by his brother
fell and died because he was overwhelmed by the gases
sunk in a boat
15. How did most die at Pompeii?
evaporated by heat
caught on fire
suffocation from toxic gases and ash