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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 did Chanel's frequent role as a mistress to married men make her yearn for?
(a) A life on her own.
(b) For marriage to be outlawed.
(c) The good sense to stay away from married men.
(d) A man to chose her above all others.

2. For generations, what had Chanel's family made a living gathering?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Chestnuts.
(c) Grains.
(d) Truffles.

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

4. Who was Etienne Balsan?
(a) An investment banker.
(b) A horse breeder and equestrian.
(c) A manufacturer of uniforms.
(d) An architect and painter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Chanel's parents marry?

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

3. In which region of her home country was Chanel born?

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

5. What is said to have shaped the world in which Chanel spent her childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Chanel go after leaving the convent?

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

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

4. What did Chanel's father do for a living?

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

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

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

8. In Saumer, what influenced women's fashion at the time of Chanel's birth?

9. What was the result of Chanel's affair with a German officer?

10. Who was named as the fashion-setters at the end of the 1800s?

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