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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter XIV, The New House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the von Trapps end up back in America when the war breaks out?
(a) Mr. Wagner provides them with tickets back.
(b) Their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Drinker, fly them back.
(c) They hide in a ship, traveling as stowaways.
(d) They use fake passports.

2. Why is the family detained at Ellis Island?
(a) Maria answers a question incorrectly to an immigration officer.
(b) They have no money.
(c) It's customary to detain all newcomers.
(d) The youngest child has the chicken pox.

3. When the family is invited to perform at a diplomatic reception for dignitaries in Austria, what do they decide?
(a) It would be an honor.
(b) They need to liven up their performance.
(c) They must sew new clothes for the occasion.
(d) They're out of their league.

4. How does Georg feel about his family performing at a diplomatic reception for dignitaries?
(a) Concerned.
(b) Proud.
(c) Confused.
(d) Jealous.

5. On their Vermont property, the von Trapps:
(a) Build a summer playground for visiting families.
(b) Start a mushroom farm.
(c) Learn how to harvest sap and make maple syrup.
(d) Set up a cottage where they sell handmade crafts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hears the Trapp family singing on a radio program?

2. What do the von Trapps see through the bars of their prison in Ellis Island?

3. Where are the von Trapps when war breaks out in 1939?

4. What happens to concerts in Europe when war breaks out?

5. Who dies in the middle of the von Trapps' Vermont remodeling project?

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