Answer:
1. The towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were destroyed.
2. They were buried and they remained hidden for hundreds of years.
3.One eyewitness, Pliny the Younger, wrote several long letters.
4. Pliny the Younger was a statesman writer and orator.
5. Historians have analyzed and studied his letters.
6. Pliny the Younger wrote about many subjects, but he is known for his accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius.
7. He descrubed a cloud stretching to the ground, dust emerging, and the sky darkening.
8. Confused and terrified residents tried to escape.
9. People cried, moaned, and shouted.
10. The smoky, dark air was frightening.
