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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. What is said to have shaped the world in which Chanel spent her childhood?
(a) Abject poverty.
(b) The war.
(c) The disruption of family life.
(d) Her mother's poor mental health.

2. What was Chanel's sister's name?
(a) Bernadette.
(b) Hélène.
(c) Julia.
(d) Danielle.

3. At the time of her birth, what was Chanel's mother's marital status?
(a) Single.
(b) Widowed.
(c) Engaged.
(d) Married.

4. Who provided Chanel the finances to open her shop?
(a) Balsan.
(b) Capel.
(c) A government grant.
(d) Her grandfather.

5. What property did Chanel's great-grandfather rent?
(a) A plot of farm land.
(b) A hall.
(c) A store room.
(d) An inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not described as a popular fashion at the end of the 1800s?

2. For what was Etienne Balsan famous?

3. After leaving the orphanage, where did Chanel go to live?

4. What is described as one of Chanel's most scandalous affairs?

5. In the city where Chanel was born, for how long had women's fashion gone unchanged?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some pieces of fashionable styles for men named in the Introduction of the book?

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

3. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

4. What sort of environments was Chanel surrounded by as a child?

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

6. What was significant about August in Saumer?

7. Emotionally, how important was Chanel's relationship with Arthur "Boy" Capel?

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

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

10. What made Chanel memorable to the people who met her?

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