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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did the plagues have on provincial villages?
(a) Villages began to collapse.
(b) Village populations began to grow.
(c) Village communities became distrustful of outsiders.
(d) The plagues had no lasting effect on provincial villages.

2. What does biographer Edmonde Charles-Roux say Chanel tried to conceal her entire life?
(a) Her real name.
(b) Her religious beliefs.
(c) Her shoe size.
(d) The circumstances of her birth.

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

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

5. Which of the following did Chanel's father sell?
(a) Rubber boots.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Undergarments.
(d) Bibles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is described as an important center of style in Chanel's birth city?

3. In what year did plagues begin to sweep through provincial villages?

4. Which of the following is not described as an experience of Chanel's childhood?

5. In the city where Chanel was born, for how long had women's fashion gone unchanged?

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