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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 what year did Chanel return to Paris fashion?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1956.

2. When she was twenty years old, in which town was Chanel offered a job?
(a) Avernes.
(b) Moulins.
(c) Bellevue.
(d) Yzeure.

3. What did Chanel's great-grandfather use to rent a property?
(a) Gambling winnings.
(b) His wife's dowry.
(c) He traded livestock.
(d) An inheritance.

4. Which of the following was not described as a popular fashion at the end of the 1800s?
(a) Slender waists.
(b) Foulard caps.
(c) Short boots.
(d) High collars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first of Chanel's relatives to give up day labor?

2. For generations, what had Chanel's family made a living gathering?

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

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

5. Which of the following events was not described as happening when Chanel was born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Chanel's parents marry, and what did it mean for the family?

3. What was significant about August in Saumer?

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

5. Because of her mother's death, what happened in Chanel's life?

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

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

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

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

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

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