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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 the foreword, what is Chanel described as being "to the core"?
(a) An idealist.
(b) An innovator.
(c) A romantic.
(d) A businesswoman.

2. In which region of her home country was Chanel born?
(a) Auvergne.
(b) Limousin.
(c) Bergundy.
(d) The Cevennes.

3. In the city where Chanel was born, for how long had women's fashion gone unchanged?
(a) For decades.
(b) For not very long.
(c) For fifty years.
(d) For a hundred years.

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

5. What part of Chanel's life is explored in the book's Introduction?
(a) Her early childhood.
(b) Her middle age.
(c) Her life just before her death.
(d) Her young adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the foreword, how is Chanel's work ethic described upon her return to Paris after her exile?

3. What was "Boy" Capel's first name?

4. What effect did the plagues have on provincial villages?

5. What influenced the design of men's clothes when Chanel was growing up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Etienne Balsan?

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

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

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

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

6. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

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

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

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

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

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