The poison gas _________ as the terrible night advanced. It was possible to protect oneself from the pumice stones but not from the gas, and Pompeiians died by the _____________. Carbon monoxide gas prevents the body from ___________ oxygen. Victims of carbon monoxide poisoning get sleepier and sleepier until they lose _________________, never to regain it. All over Pompeii, people lay down on _________ of pumice stones, overwhelmed by the gas, and death came quietly to them.

All through the endless night, Pompeiians ___________ about the streets or crouched in their ruined homes or _________ in the temples to pray. By morning few remained alive. Not once had Vesuvius stopped _________ pumice stones and ash into the air, and the streets of Pompeii were filling quickly. At midday on August 25th, exactly twenty-four hours after the beginning of the first _________, a second eruption occurred. A second cloud of ash rose above Vesuvius’ _________. The wind blew ash as far as Rome. But most of the new ash descended on Pompeii.