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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter XVI, Trapp Family Music Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they travel by rail, sometimes the von Trapps end up in separate cars and worry about:
(a) Someone falling off the train.
(b) Whether or not everyone will get off at the right stop.
(c) One of the children being kidnapped.
(d) Someone losing a ticket.

2. In 1938, after the Chancellor resigns, what does the von Trapps' butler inform them?
(a) He's a member of the Nazi party.
(b) He is related to the Chancellor.
(c) He is quitting.
(d) He was born in Germany.

3. What does the performer Lotte Lehmann encourage the von Trapps to do?
(a) Sing at a benefit for orphans.
(b) Perform in a singing festival.
(c) Sing at her wedding reception.
(d) Perform for a visiting dignitary.

4. When the Captain returns to the villa unexpectedly from a trip and finds his family sitting on the floor singing, what does he do?
(a) Scolds the children.
(b) Sits with them.
(c) Laughs uncontrollably.
(d) Yells at Maria.

5. What does Maria find when she opens a copy of Life Magazine?
(a) A pictorial tribute to Vermont.
(b) A shocking article about their manager.
(c) A feature on her Austrian hometown.
(d) A spread about her and her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the von Trapps' first singing concert?

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

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

4. In Part 2, Chapter 13, Maria notes that she and the family are no longer a hundred percent European, but not what?

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

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