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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For which stage production directed by Cocteau did Chanel act as costumer?
(a) La Lampe d'Aladin.
(b) Les Monstres sacrés.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Allégories.

2. How did Chanel feel about the place where she stayed after leaving the orphanage?
(a) Chanel felt unwelcome.
(b) Chanel felt at home.
(c) Chanel felt the need to escape.
(d) Chanel felt as if she was making a difference.

3. When did Chanel's father abandon her?
(a) After her mother's death.
(b) When he joined the military.
(c) When he got married.
(d) At her birth.

4. In the city where Chanel was born, what was August known as?
(a) The month of L'Hexagone.
(b) The month of the Carrousel.
(c) The month of the Rhine.
(d) The month of Marianne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chanel's great-grandfather turn his rented property into?

2. What did nostalgics lament about the direction of post-war fashion?

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

4. Which of the following was not described as a popular fashion at the end of the 1800s?

5. When she was twenty years old, in what kind of establishment was Chanel offered a job?

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