Pompeii Reading Comprehension

What is the correct name for the people who had to dig to uncover the streets of Pompeii?

• Street sweepers

• Garbage Collectors

• Archeologists

• Historians

Name the mountain beside Pompeii?

• Vesuvius

• Etna

• Jebel Jais

• Krakatoa

The disaster provides a clear model of life in ....

• Viking Times

• The Stone Age

• The Roman Empire

• The Industrial Revolution

Empty shells remain after ....

• The streets were uncovered

• The bodies decayed

• The archeologists left

• The volcano erupted.

Look at paragraph 2 in Pompeiil. Reorder the statements to show the chronological order that they occur in the text.

• The morning of 24 August was just like any other.

• Then, at around midday, a huge cloud of burning hot gas and rocks filled the sky.

• .Some went to fetch their belongings.

• In August of the year 79CE, there had been some earth tremors in Pompeii, but the people weren't worried.

• Many people ran for the coast

Look at the sentences below. Reorder them to show the order the words occur in the sentence.

• burning hot

• midday

• rocks

• sky

Mount Vesuvius erupted on which date?

• 24th August

• 24th March

• 24th April

• 24th September

When were Pompeii's wall paintings seen?

• 1792

• 1569

• 1592

• 1952

Which of the following filled the air after the most powerful eruption?

• sunshine

• rain

• ash

• rocks

What flowed through the city?

• magma

• trade

• people

• volcanoes