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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Chanel do for her friend Raymond Radiguet?
2. Who lived nearby to Chanel's millinery shop?
3. What garment gave Chanel her first major commercial success?
4. What did Chanel do in order to have her fashions publicized?
5. Who was Emilienne d'Alecon?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way did the invention of the motor vehicle highlight the impracticalities of women's fashion?
2. Explain Chanel's brief involvement with Hollywood.
3. What was life at Balsan's chateau like for Chanel?
4. How did Chanel use her friends to find commercial success?
5. Why was Boy Capel an ideal match for Chanel?
6. What inspired Chanel's English period?
7. What happened when Balsan found out about Chanel's relationship with Capel?
8. Following her success as a hat designer, on what areas of fashion did Chanel focus her attention?
9. What role did Vogue magazine play when Chanel began mass-producing dresses?
10. How did Chanel earn her nickname, "Coco"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Chanel's desire to create practical clothes for women. Describe the fashion during the Belle Époque and how Chanel desires to go in another direction with fashion. How were her designs more practical for the woman? What was impractical about the popular fashion before Chanel came along?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Chanel's life as a part of the demimonde. What was the demimonde? How did this time in her life impact her career?
Essay Topic 3
Chanel moved in very creative circles. She brushed shoulders with a number of the influential artists of her generation. Discuss the brilliant minds that surrounded Chanel and how they might have affected her own creativity.
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