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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Maria's third child delivered?
(a) At the hospital with a team of doctors.
(b) At the hospital with a midwife and a young nurse.
(c) At home with a young doctor and a nurse.
(d) At home with a midwife.

2. 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.

3. What is the "American Farmer?"
(a) A play.
(b) A plane.
(c) A ship.
(d) A song.

4. When Maria suggests the children wear play-suits, what does the Baroness say?
(a) Play-suits are for peasants, not upper-class children.
(b) The children should be studying, not playing.
(c) The Captain wants his children to be dressed neatly.
(d) The Captain has already ordered play-suits for all the children.

5. The clothes that Mrs. Drinker convinces Maria to buy for baby Johannes end up being:
(a) Not warm enough.
(b) Much too big.
(c) Too small.
(d) Too gaudy.

6. After Georg loses his fortune in Austria, the family:
(a) Fires the butler.
(b) Sells their expensive silverware and crystal.
(c) Lets six servants go.
(d) Sells their jewelry and antiques collection.

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

8. How do the von Trapps end up back in America when the war breaks out?
(a) Their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Drinker, fly them back.
(b) Mr. Wagner provides them with tickets back.
(c) They use fake passports.
(d) They hide in a ship, traveling as stowaways.

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

10. After seeing Maria's baby clothes, what does Mrs. Drinker do?
(a) Takes Maria shopping for practical baby clothes.
(b) Gives her money to buy modern baby outfits.
(c) Hosts a baby shower for Maria.
(d) Lends Maria some of her baby's clothes.

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

12. After the Nazis start taking control of Austria under the pretense of being liberators, Maria:
(a) Teaches the children to speak in a special code.
(b) Hides the family's most treasured possessions.
(c) Pretends to be sympathetic to the Nazi party.
(d) Trembles whenever the doorbell rings.

13. What uniquely American things is the family introduced to on the ship bound for the United States?
(a) Slang, sodas, and coin denominations.
(b) Baseball and football.
(c) Hot dogs and hamburgers.
(d) Popcorn, gum, and chocolate bars.

14. When she first learns English, Maria spells words as she would in Austrian. For example, she spells "watch" as:
(a) Vashe.
(b) Votsch.
(c) Wosht.
(d) Wasch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the family loses their fortune in Austria, Maria says that she and the children are:

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

3. How does Maria rate their first concert in the United States?

4. When Georg buys twelve tickets for the Normandie, leaving on March 4th, where is the family going?

5. When Maria gives birth to her first child, Rosemarie, this is Georg's:

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