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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While her family goes sightseeing in New York, Maria stays in the hotel to:
(a) Learn English.
(b) Knit baby clothes.
(c) Cook dinner.
(d) Practice songs.

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

4. When the Nazi party replaces teachers at the children's school, students are taught that:
(a) The previous teachers were traitors.
(b) The new teachers are smarter and more compassionate than the previous ones.
(c) Parents are too old-fashioned to understand the party.
(d) They must teach their parents what they learn in school.

5. Maria gets permission from the Archbishop to do what at their villa?
(a) Turn a room into a chapel.
(b) Create a library of religious tomes.
(c) Turn a wing into a nunnery.
(d) House monks of the region's silent order.

6. What does Georg give Maria to accompany her when she's recovering from kidney stone surgery?
(a) Three chicks and a turtle.
(b) A turtle and a kitten.
(c) A kitten and a puppy.
(d) A puppy and three chicks.

7. Where does the family sing in the mornings at their villa?
(a) On the roof.
(b) In their chapel.
(c) In the courtyard.
(d) Around the fireplace.

8. What does the family find amusing about Uncle Peter?
(a) He's an inventor, but very few of his inventions work.
(b) He's afraid of holding babies, thinking they're too delicate.
(c) He wears a different style of shoe on each foot.
(d) He does nothing without consulting a manual first.

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

10. When the family loses their fortune in Austria, Maria says that she and the children are:
(a) Eating less to make ends meet.
(b) Worried sick about their future.
(c) Planning bake sales to earn money.
(d) Not suffering over the loss.

11. When Maria becomes pregnant again and doctors want her to end the pregnancy because of her weak kidneys, what does Maria do?
(a) Takes strengthening herbs.
(b) Goes on fulltime bedrest.
(c) Ends the pregnancy.
(d) Goes on a strict diet.

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

13. When a Nazi official comes to the von Trapp household, what does he tell Georg to do?
(a) Teach his children German.
(b) Display a Nazi flag.
(c) Donate funds to the German army.
(d) Renounce his loyalty to Austria.

14. What do the von Trapps see through the bars of their prison in Ellis Island?
(a) Saint Paul's Cathedral.
(b) Chrysler Building.
(c) Statue of Liberty.
(d) The Empire State Building.

15. Why does the Captain tell the Princess he cannot marry her?
(a) He saw her with another man.
(b) She's mean to his children.
(c) He loves someone else.
(d) He already proposed to Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the von Trapp children's Uncle Peter?

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

3. Why does Father Wasner become a regular at the von Trapp villa?

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

5. When the von Trapps are newcomers in New York, they eat most of their meals at:

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