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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brought Chanel back to Paris?
(a) Her company was on the brink of bankruptcy.
(b) She missed her friends.
(c) Her competition with Christian Dior.
(d) She missed her family.

2. What kind of shop did Chanel open?
(a) A hosiery shop.
(b) A dress shop.
(c) A haberdashery.
(d) A millinery shop.

3. What was Coco Chanel's real first name?
(a) Gabrielle.
(b) Marie.
(c) Monique.
(d) Natalie.

4. What made Chanel memorable to everyone she met?
(a) Her strange dress-sense.
(b) Her vibrancy.
(c) Her booming voice.
(d) Her constant laughter.

5. What hobby did Chanel adopt after meeting Balsan?
(a) Horseback riding.
(b) Photography.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Dog breeding.

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

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

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

9. What did Chanel's frequent role as a mistress to married men make her yearn for?
(a) The good sense to stay away from married men.
(b) For marriage to be outlawed.
(c) A man to chose her above all others.
(d) A life on her own.

10. Where would Chanel's family gather their harvest from?
(a) Farmed land.
(b) Groves.
(c) Riverbanks.
(d) Fields.

11. Who was "Boy" Capel to Chanel?
(a) A rival.
(b) A distant relation.
(c) Her trusted business partner.
(d) The only man Chanel would ever love.

12. What was fashion at the time of Chanel's birth said to have made women look?
(a) Like decorated cakes.
(b) Like pillowcases.
(c) Like haystacks.
(d) Deformed and crippled.

13. In what season was Chanel born?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

14. In which city was Chanel born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rouen.
(c) Marseille.
(d) Saumur.

15. For generations, what was Chanel's family's financial situation?
(a) Her family was poor.
(b) Her family was wealthy.
(c) Her family was middle class.
(d) Her family was working class.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Chanel's father abandon her?

3. Who was Etienne Balsan?

4. For what was Etienne Balsan famous?

5. With which of the following dukes did Chanel have a relationship?

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