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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. In terms of fashion, what was evolving quickly when Chanel was born?
(a) The use of modern fabrics.
(b) Men's fashion.
(c) Women's fashions.
(d) Lengths of skirts.

2. In what season was Chanel born?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

3. What was fashion at the time of Chanel's birth said to have made women look?
(a) Deformed and crippled.
(b) Like haystacks.
(c) Like pillowcases.
(d) Like decorated cakes.

4. What was Chanel said to have become to "all the young lions of the age"?
(a) A target.
(b) A darling.
(c) A distraction.
(d) A trophy.

5. What was Chanel's father's name?
(a) Phillipe.
(b) Gérard.
(c) Albert.
(d) Claude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Chanel's father sell?

2. Where would Chanel's family gather their harvest from?

3. What does biographer Edmonde Charles-Roux say Chanel tried to conceal her entire life?

4. Who was Etienne Balsan?

5. In the city where Chanel was born, what was August known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the decline and collapse of French rural communities in the 1800s?

2. What had Chanel's family done for generations?

3. In business terms, how important was Chanel's relationship with Arthur "Boy" Capel?

4. What did Chanel's great-grandfather establish for his family?

5. Where was Chanel's family from, and where was she herself born?

6. What does Charles-Roux explain Chanel strove for her whole life to conceal?

7. When did Chanel's parents marry, and what did it mean for the family?

8. What influenced men's fashion at the time of Chanel's birth?

9. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

10. How was Chanel able to achieve success even through World War II?

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