Escape from Pompeii

What does the name Vesuvius mean?

• Beautiful Mountain

• Massive Mountain

• Gentle Mountain

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CCSS.L.4.4B

What river is near Pompeii?

• River Spices

• River Sarnus

• River Haggling

Who is the son of Dion, the actor?

• Tranio

• Naples

• Livia

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CCSS.RL.4.1

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CCSS.W.4.9B

Who escaped the volcano and hid on a boat?

• Dion and Tranio

• Livia and Dion

• Tranio and Livia

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What type of game might a child in Pompeii play?

• Knucklebones

• Pantomime

• Tremors

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CCSS.RI.4.3

What three types of characters might masked actors, in the theater, play in Pompeii?

• thieves

• devils

• fountains

• acrobats

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CCSS.RL.4.3

What two items filled the air, that made it hard to breath, before Vesuvius fully exploded?

• pumice

• stones

• ash

• lava

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.3

Who raised Tranio and Livia?

• Captain of a Japanese ship

• Captain of a Thomas ship

• Captain of a Greek ship

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CCSS.RI.4.1

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

About how long did Pompeii sleep before being discovered in 1748?

• 1,700 yrs.

• 1,863 yrs.

• 1,748 yrs.

• 1,944 yrs.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

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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CCSS.RI.4.3