After resting for 1,500 years, italy's mount vesuvius woke up to do enormous damage. (2) the volcano erupted in the early afternoon of august 24, a. d. 79, and the residents of pompeii, four miles away, were able to see and hear the explosion, which sent a huge black cloud into the sky. (3) a day had passed, pompeii and its inhabitants were buried under thirty to fifty feet of stones and ash. question 9 options: a. also b. eventually c. during d. before