Pompeii - Key Facts To Know :)
GCSE questions on life in Pompeii before and during the eruption
- 1.Where is Pompeii?
- A.
France
- B.
Greece
- C.
Italy
- D.
Germany
- 2.Who were the first people to discover Pompeii?
- A.
Oscans
- B.
Romans
- C.
Samenites
- D.
Etruscans
- 3.When did Mt Vesuvius erupt?
- A.
78 AD
- B.
76 AD
- C.
79 AD
- D.
76 BC
- 4.A typical Pompeiian house ...
- A.
Was very large with many rooms and floors.
- B.
Had massive windows and big kitchens
- C.
Had no windows and were no larger (generally) than one insulae
- D.
Didn't exist they lived in small huts
- 5.They had 6 temples in the Forum
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.The House of Mysteries was called this because...
- A.
It was a torture house
- B.
It was home to a secret cult
- C.
The house was completely empty
- D.
It was the Roman Emperor's holiday home
- 7.The house of Vetti was owned by ..
- A.
The Vetti Brothers
- B.
The Vetti Family
- C.
The Vetti Cult
- D.
An old emperor
- 8.The Pompeiians wore green togas
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Pompeii's neighbouring city which also got destroyed in the eruption was..
- A.
Naples
- B.
Heraculaneum
- C.
Baie
- D.
Misenum
- 10.Pliny the younger lived in ...
- A.
Pompeii
- B.
Naples
- C.
Rome
- D.
Sicily
- 11.How did the archeologists find the bodies?
- A.
They dug down until they came across one
- B.
They waited until the pumice blew off
- C.
They melted the 4 layers of pumice and other debris and picked the bodies out.
- D.
They filled the holes in the pumice with plaster and chipped away, making a plaster cast of the bodies
- 12.The cause of death was mainly ..
- A.
Lava
- B.
Drowning
- C.
Suffocating
- D.
Suicide
- 13.Lots of people survived the eruption
- A.
True
- B.
False
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