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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the name Vesuvius mean?
Beautiful Mountain
Massive Mountain
Gentle Mountain
- 2. Multiple Choice
What river is near Pompeii?
River Spices
River Sarnus
River Haggling
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who is the son of Dion, the actor?
Tranio
Naples
Livia
- 4. Multiple Choice
Who escaped the volcano and hid on a boat?
Dion and Tranio
Livia and Dion
Tranio and Livia
- 5. Multiple Choice
What type of game might a child in Pompeii play?
Knucklebones
Pantomime
Tremors
- 6. Multiple Choice
What three types of characters might masked actors, in the theater, play in Pompeii?
thieves
devils
fountains
acrobats
- 7. Multiple Choice
What two items filled the air, that made it hard to breath, before Vesuvius fully exploded?
pumice
stones
ash
lava
- 8. Multiple Choice
Who raised Tranio and Livia?
Captain of a Japanese ship
Captain of a Thomas ship
Captain of a Greek ship
- 9. Multiple Choice
About how long did Pompeii sleep before being discovered in 1748?
1,700 yrs.
1,863 yrs.
1,748 yrs.
1,944 yrs.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Who discovered how to make the body casts of the people who died in Pompeii?
Giuseppe Breig
Giuseppe Bolden
Giuseppe Fiorelli
Giuseppe Ferrari
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