1.Why is Pompeii a unique city?

2.What destroyed the city of Pompeii?

3.In what way was the excavation of Pompeii different from other excavations?

4.Why can we learn more from Pompeii than we can from other ruins? What can we discover?

5.Did people know that something unusual was about to happen?

6.What is happening under the surface of the earth while people go about their usual lives?

7.What happened after the initial explosion? Was the initial explosion very damaging? Why, or why not?

8.What added to the fear of the people of Pompeii?

9.About how many people managed to escape? How did they escape?

10.How do the citizens of Pompeii behave once they sense the danger?

11.What did Diomedes do during the danger? Why did his plan fail?

12.Why were Pompeiian chariots narrower than other chariots?

13.Why is it especially difficult to tell what the Forum was like in Pompeii?

14.What makes Pompeii different from other ruins?

15.What two interesting facts are known about the Villa of Giulia Felix? How do we know these things?

16.What does the author say visiting Pompeii allows us to do? Why do the people of Pompeii seem real and vivid to us?