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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chanel style her first summer home after?
(a) The Paris Museum of Natural History.
(b) Balsan's chateau.
(c) The orphanage she grew up in.
(d) Buckingham palace.

2. Because of her inexperience in the fashion trade, what characterized Chanel's shop?
(a) Underpriced merchandise.
(b) Ill-fitting clothes.
(c) Inconsistent business hours.
(d) A sense of looseness.

3. To which commission was Boy Capel transferred by Clemenceau?
(a) The naval ship building commission
(b) The patent application commission.
(c) The Paris city protection commission.
(d) The Franco-English wartime coal commission.

4. What did Paul Morand write about Chanel and Capel?
(a) A play.
(b) A magazine article.
(c) A short story.
(d) An opera.

5. Who lived nearby to Chanel's millinery shop?
(a) Adrienne Chanel.
(b) Boy Capel.
(c) Pierre Reverdy.
(d) George Clemenceau.

6. What did nostalgics lament about the direction of post-war fashion?
(a) That it was the end of durable fabrics.
(b) That it was the end of good taste.
(c) That it was the end of opulence.
(d) That it was the end of the "golden era."

7. What invention made the flaws of women's dress apparent?
(a) Motor vehicles.
(b) Electric heaters.
(c) Cameras.
(d) Washing machines.

8. What did Chanel realize she could do at Biarritz?
(a) Mix anonymously with members of high-society.
(b) Have her family near her while she worked.
(c) Start her career over again.
(d) Repeat the success she had in Deauville.

9. What was Chanel's signature scent developed during her Russian Period.
(a) Bois des ÃŽles.
(b) Chanel No. 5.
(c) Pot Pourri.
(d) L'Heure Bleue.

10. How long did Adrienne Chanel wait to marry her lover?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Thirty years.

11. Who eventually took over Chanel's shop at Biarritz?
(a) Charles Fredrick Worth.
(b) Adrienne Chanel.
(c) Antoinette Chanel.
(d) Boy Capel.

12. After opening the shop in Biarritz, how many people did Chanel have in her employ?
(a) One hundred and seventy-five.
(b) Around fifty.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One hundred.

13. Why did Chanel take a job as a water dispenser?
(a) To pay for her sister's schooling.
(b) To brush shoulders with high society.
(c) To earn money for fabrics and threads
(d) To earn money for singing lessons.

14. From where did Chanel gain much of her business in 1914?
(a) Christmas sales of her popular new perfume.
(b) Manufacturing military uniforms.
(c) Wealthy people replacing their clothes destroyed in the war.
(d) Doing business with Hollywood.

15. Who took it upon herself to help Chanel recover from Boy's death?
(a) Suzanne d'Orlandi.
(b) Adrienne Chanel.
(c) Jeanne Leary.
(d) Misia Godebska.

Short Answer Questions

1. The aristocrats and upper class of which country were served from Chanel's Biarritz shop?

2. How old was Chanel when her mother died?

3. Who did Chanel choose as her lover from the 10th Chasseurs?

4. Who was George Clemenceau?

5. Who did Chanel select to be the director of design for her new line of jewelry?

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