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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter XV, Concerts in Wartime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to the Captain and his children, who else lives at the villa when Maria arrives?
(a) The butler, baroness, cook, gardener, farm keeper, and various maids.
(b) The Princess, butler, cook, maids, and family priest.
(c) Cooks, maids, gardeners, auto mechanics, artists, and a groundskeeper.
(d) The Princess, baroness, music teacher, butler, and maids.

2. After their first performance of their third American tour, what does the manager tell the von Trapps?
(a) They're doing a fantastic job.
(b) They need to project more be heard well in the back.
(c) They need more cheerful songs.
(d) They are lacking something.

3. At first, how does Georg feel about his children and wife performing on stage?
(a) He is excited for them.
(b) He doesn't know what to think.
(c) He thinks it's demeaning.
(d) He feels they should get paid.

4. When Maria gives birth to her first child, Rosemarie, this is Georg's:
(a) Twelfth child.
(b) Seventh child.
(c) Tenth child.
(d) Eighth child.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Maria becomes pregnant again and doctors want her to end the pregnancy because of her weak kidneys, what does Maria do?

3. To earn a living after Georg loses most of his savings, what does the family do?

4. Before Maria arrives to teach at the von Trapp Villa, how many other teachers and governesses have come and gone?

5. The clothes that Mrs. Drinker convinces Maria to buy for baby Johannes end up being:

(see the answer key)

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