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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. What happens after the von Trapps' visitor visas expire?
(a) They are arrested and forcibly departed.
(b) They are given a two-month extension.
(c) Their application is automatically resubmitted.
(d) Their visa extension request is rejected.

2. What treasured baby clothes does Maria show Mrs. Drinker?
(a) Embroidered shirts and fancy gowns.
(b) Knit booties and crocheted hats.
(c) Cashmere sweaters.
(d) Baby bonnets.

3. 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.

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

5. What happens at the von Trapps' first singing concert?
(a) They win.
(b) They meet the Pope.
(c) Maria trips on stage.
(d) They come in third.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to celebrating birthdays in their Austrian villa, what does the family celebrate?

2. Why does the family receive a phone call from a Salzburg radio station manager?

3. How is Maria's third child delivered?

4. When Maria first arrives at the villa, how do six of the children -- Agathe, Hedwig, Martina, Johanna, Rupert, and Werner -- greet her?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How often does the Trapp family sing at their villa?

2. After Maria returns home from her kidney stone procedure, the family gets a long distance call. What information do they receive during this call?

3. Describe the conversation between Maria and Princess Yvonne in Maria's room at the villa.

4. Maria explains that Salzburg is built around what two prominent structures?

5. When the family first arrives at the Hotel Wellington in New York City, what experiences do they have?

6. 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?

7. The children don't know what an Advent wreath is. How does Maria describe it to them?

8. 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?

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

10. When the mother of a famous harpsichordist advises the family that they need to get themselves a publicist, what do the von Trapps do?

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