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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter IX, An Operation, a Turtle, and a Long Distance Call.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Princess Yvonne is about to visit the von Trapps, what does the Captain's daughter, Little Maria, ask?
(a) Why the Princess is always so cold to her.
(b) If the Princess will bring her chocolate truffles from Belgium.
(c) Why the Captain doesn't leave the Princess and marry Maria instead.
(d) Whether or not they still need the Princess now that they have Maria.

2. Who is the von Trapp children's Uncle Peter?
(a) Maria's brother.
(b) Georg's distant cousin.
(c) Maria's uncle.
(d) Georg's childhood friend.

3. Who brings the presents at Christmas in Austria?
(a) Jesus with angels.
(b) The family's guardian angels.
(c) Saint Nikolaus with angels.
(d) Santa Claus with angels.

4. When Maria meets the Captain, who is he about to become engaged to?
(a) Yolanda Ives.
(b) Claire Franz.
(c) Princess Yvonne.
(d) Baroness Matilde.

5. When Maria first arrives at the villa, how do six of the children -- Agathe, Hedwig, Martina, Johanna, Rupert, and Werner -- greet her?
(a) They greet her in the villa's courtyard with a "Welcome Maria" banner that they made.
(b) Each greets her politely but coldly before returning to his or her room to study.
(c) They rush outside and nearly tackle her to the ground as they all embrace her.
(d) Summoned by their father's whistle, the children come downstairs in matching sailor suits.

Short Answer Questions

1. As their first Christmas with Maria approaches, what do the children do while they sing?

2. After Maria gives birth to her second child, she needs surgery for kidney stones. How many stones are removed?

3. While Maria is recovering from kidney stone surgery, she mischievously tricks a nurse, Sister Agrosia, into believing what?

4. What does the family find amusing about Uncle Peter?

5. When the Captain first asks Maria how she likes his children, she replies that:

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