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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter II, The First Ten Years Are the Hardest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As their first Christmas with Maria approaches, what do the children do while they sing?
(a) Adorn their twenty-five Christmas trees.
(b) Make crafts for gifts.
(c) Bake strudels and cookies.
(d) Decorate the house.

2. With Maria as their new mother, what do the von Trapp children learn every night?
(a) A new song.
(b) A new recipe.
(c) Another prayer.
(d) An Austrian fairytale.

3. When a Nazi official comes to the von Trapp household, what does he tell Georg to do?
(a) Display a Nazi flag.
(b) Teach his children German.
(c) Donate funds to the German army.
(d) Renounce his loyalty to Austria.

4. When the Captain first asks Maria how she likes his children, she replies that:
(a) They look starved for attention.
(b) They have beautiful eyes but look pale and serious.
(c) Like all children, they are precious and cute.
(d) Time will tell whether or not they'll get along.

5. Maria gets permission from the Archbishop to do what at their villa?
(a) Turn a room into a chapel.
(b) Create a library of religious tomes.
(c) House monks of the region's silent order.
(d) Turn a wing into a nunnery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1938, after the Chancellor resigns, what does the von Trapps' butler inform them?

2. What is the "American Farmer?"

3. Who escapes Austria with the von Trapp family?

4. After Georg loses his fortune in Austria, the family:

5. What happened to the Captain's first wife?

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