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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapter XVI, Trapp Family Music Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the von Trapps' sea voyage on their way to America after their escape from Austria?
(a) Five days.
(b) Two and a half weeks.
(c) Eleven days.
(d) One month.

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

3. What happens to concerts in Europe when war breaks out?
(a) They go on as planned.
(b) They're moved to safer locations.
(c) They are cancelled.
(d) The venues change to lift morale.

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

5. When the Captain returns to the villa unexpectedly from a trip and finds his family sitting on the floor singing, what does he do?
(a) Yells at Maria.
(b) Scolds the children.
(c) Sits with them.
(d) Laughs uncontrollably.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Maria suggests the children wear play-suits, what does the Baroness say?

2. When Mr. Wagner, the family's manager, finds out Maria is pregnant, he:

3. When she first learns English, Maria spells words as she would in Austrian. For example, she spells "watch" as:

4. When Georg and Maria consider buying a house in Vermont that's in poor condition, what does Maria point out?

5. What specific talent does Maria claim Mr. Schang has?

(see the answer key)

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