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1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. a musical genius and her father

b. two close sibling composers

c. a composer’s meeting with a queen close siblings
Fanny and Felix both musical geniuses

Mendelssohn often played their songs together
2. Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were from .
became great composers
a. Italy b. Germany c. the United Kingdom

3. Fanny and Felix’s father only wanted to study music.

a. Felix b. Fanny c. their mother

4. How many songs did Fanny write? songs composers musical close

a. more than 400 b. more than 1400 c. more than 4000

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Check true or false.
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Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were close siblings . They were also
5. Felix wrote the song “Italien.”
great German composers. Fanny wanted to study music , but

6. Felix was a good composer, but Fanny wasn’t. their father didn’t let her. However, Felix told her to keep writing

songs. Queen Victoria loved “Italien,” one of Fanny’s songs. Fanny

wrote over 400 songs.
Write the correct answers.

7. Who loved the song “Italien”?
wrote German siblings music father
Queen Victoria loved it.

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