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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. Who did Chanel choose as her lover from the 10th Chasseurs?

2. After WWI, what image did women want fashion to project?

3. Who did Capel have make an elegant version of the simple lines Chanel always wore?

4. How old was Chanel when her mother died?

5. What did Chanel do in order to have her fashions publicized?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life at Balsan's chateau like for Chanel?

2. Following her success as a hat designer, on what areas of fashion did Chanel focus her attention?

3. Explain Chanel's brief involvement with Hollywood.

4. What decision was Chanel required to make when she turned eighteen?

5. How did Boy Capel die, and who helped Chanel through her grieving?

6. In what way did the invention of the motor vehicle highlight the impracticalities of women's fashion?

7. According to Chanel, what made her successful in designing fashion for society?

8. What inspired Chanel's English period?

9. Explain how Chanel used mannequins to promote her work.

10. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Belle Époque. What is it and when did it occur? How does the fashion and opulence of that time period compare to the fashion of Chanel? Why did the Belle Époque come to an end?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Chanel's self-imposed exile during and after WWII. Why did she go to Switzerland? What occurred in the fashion world while she was living in Switzerland? What spurred her to return to France?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Chanel's life as a part of the demimonde. What was the demimonde? How did this time in her life impact her career?

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