Quiz · Pompeii Under the Ash

Question 1What is the main idea of this passage?

How tourists can visit the city of Pompeii today How volcanoes erupt near the sea in Italy The daily work of local farmers near Vesuvius The destruction and rediscovery of Pompeii

Question 2In which year did the mountain near Pompeii explode?

In the year seventy-nine In the seventeen hundreds Almost two thousand years before Rome was built Only fifteen hundred years ago

Question 3According to the speaker, what did the ash do to the city?

It burned everything in the city completely It pushed the buildings into the nearby sea It kept everything safe, like a photograph in stone It turned all the streets into grey rivers