"Maria": by Maria von Trapp Chpt.1 Quiz

Answer: Salt Lake City, Utah

Maria von Trapp traveled all across the U.S. with her stories from her childhood. In this city, she was scheduled to speak at the Mormon Church University. This was during an exam week so the Bishop who was driving her to the site was a bit afraid that there wouldn't be a very big audience. Little did they know that all of the students would be fighting to get into the fieldhouse where Maria was to speak.

Answer: psychology

This young man had read the book and thought that from her wildness and childhood-long rebellion stage, she would be bound for juvenile delinquency.

Answer: Tirol; Karl

Maria's father had been married a first time before he met Maria's mother, Augusta. After he had been remarried, Karl never wanted anything to do with his father who never wanted anything to do with him, but he did find some time for Maria in their later years.

Answer: Upright, leaning against his shoulder

When Maria was around two years old, her mother had caught a horrible case of pneumonia. This was only around 1908, so, no doctor could help her.

Answer: six

After Maria's father was left with heartbreak after his first wife's death, he left Karl with the same foster mother that Maria was left with. She had had two sons that were adults and two girls that were also adults, but still lived with her. So, including her foster children, she had six children.

Answer: Keeping a daily diary

Keeping a diary was Maria's least favorite thing that her father had her do. Maria found her everyday life completely uninteresting. Maria was older when it came upon her that her father had maybe left things for her after he died and she started to wonder what had happened to things like his collection of hundreds of books and the birds he had had.

When she thought of these things, she thought about the diaries and had figured that her father must have kept a few of his own. She wondered what he put in them and deeply wished that she had had the chance to read them, for she thought that they would unlock the stories behind his real personality that she never got to know.

Answer: Her father's sudden death

Maria's father died when she was nine years old. One day, he was found in his easy chair. As it turned out, he had slipped away during his nap. Maria always regretted refusing to bring herself up to her father's standards when she was younger and many times felt like an unworthy daughter.

Answer: Paultraxl

Maria's foster mother did not like a lot of noise in her house, therefore, Maria had not been allowed to have friends over to her house. Her foster mother had her two daughters living with her and, since they didn't have any children, Maria was the only child in her household and settled with creating a make-believe family to make up for her loneliness.

Answer: Uncle Fritz

This man had been Pepi, her foster mother's son's brother-in-law. Her visited on occasion and was twenty-five years her senior.

Answer: Her late start on talking

Maria had been running around by the time she was two, but she had not said a single word yet. So, her parents took her to the doctor and he said that she was perfectly fine and would make up for it later. She was constantly reminded of this bit of information when she got older.