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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as an important center of style in Chanel's birth city?
(a) The opera house.
(b) The church.
(c) The courthouse.
(d) The racetrack.

2. With which of the following dukes did Chanel have a relationship?
(a) The Duke of Burgundy.
(b) The Duke of Savoy.
(c) The Duke of Lorraine.
(d) The Duke of Westminster.

3. At what age did Chanel meet Etienne Balsan?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty-seven.

4. After leaving the orphanage, where did Chanel go to live?
(a) With relatives.
(b) A country manor.
(c) A boarding school.
(d) A convent.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her time at the chateau, to what did Chanel apply her charms and style?

2. In what year did Chanel's parents marry?

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

4. When she was twenty years old, in which town was Chanel offered a job?

5. At the time of her birth, what was Chanel's mother's marital status?

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