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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before Maria arrives to teach at the von Trapp Villa, how many other teachers and governesses have come and gone?
(a) Thirty-nine.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Forty-two.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

3. During the summer music festivals in Salzburg, the von Trapp family:
(a) Recites poetry to visiting dignitaries.
(b) Sells homemade pastries to raise funds for the nunnery.
(c) Leaves the city because it gets too crowded.
(d) Takes out-of-town guests sightseeing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At Macy's department store, what is Maria afraid of?

2. How do the von Trapps end up back in America when the war breaks out?

3. When Maria returns to Salzburg after her kidney stone surgery, what does the family receive?

4. Maria gets permission from the Archbishop to do what at their villa?

5. When Hedwig expresses great joy over her new ski pants, what does the Princess say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Not long after Maria's daughter Leonore is born, Maria is hospitalized for kidney stones. What does Georg bring to keep her company while she recovers after surgery?

2. When Little Maria tells Maria that she misses piano lessons, what does the governess do?

3. What is the "American Farmer?"

4. After the von Trapp family gets used to the routine of giving concerts, there is still one aspect of performing they dislike. What is it?

5. After Johannes is born, the family's U.S. visitor visas expire and no extension is granted. Where do they end up?

6. Instead of going to a New York City hospital, Maria wants her baby to be delivered by a midwife at home, as was the custom in Austria at the time. In the end, who delivers her son Johannes and what happens?

7. How does Maria feel about her family being regarded as "poor refugees?"

8. When the von Trapp family vacations with Georg's distant cousin Peter, what do they find odd about him?

9. How does Father Wasner come into the von Trapps' lives?

10. After the Nazis take over, what changes take place at the children's school?

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