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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gabrielle Chanel.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where would Chanel's family gather their harvest from?
(a) Groves.
(b) Farmed land.
(c) Fields.
(d) Riverbanks.

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

4. When she was twenty years old, in what kind of establishment was Chanel offered a job?
(a) A tailor's shop.
(b) A cafe.
(c) A shoe factory.
(d) A shop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During Chanel's Russian Period, what did she incorporate into her fashions?

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

3. Who provided Chanel the finances to open her shop?

4. Where did Chanel make her stage debut?

5. How did Boy Capel die?

(see the answer key)

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