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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter IV, Barbara.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Maria gives birth to her second child, she needs surgery for kidney stones. How many stones are removed?
(a) Three.
(b) Fifty-two.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Nineteen.

3. What happened to the Captain's first wife?
(a) She was lost at sea.
(b) She disappeared mysteriously.
(c) She left the Captain for another man.
(d) She died of scarlet fever.

4. In New York, Maria discovers that shoes are shined where?
(a) At drugstores.
(b) Next to post offices.
(c) In department stores.
(d) In barbershops.

5. Maria feels hurt whenever Americans call her and her family what?
(a) A family with no home.
(b) Singing oddities.
(c) That Austrian family.
(d) Poor refugees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maria feel it's all right for the family to sing on radio?

2. What do Quakers from the Society of Friends give the Trapp family to help them out?

3. Who is Father Wasner?

4. When Princess Yvonne is about to visit the von Trapps, what does the Captain's daughter, Little Maria, ask?

5. What does Georg give Maria to accompany her when she's recovering from kidney stone surgery?

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