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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following events was not described as happening when Chanel was born?
(a) Riding instructions.
(b) Parades.
(c) Presentations of troops.
(d) Quadrilles.

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

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

4. Who was the first of Chanel's relatives to give up day labor?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her great-grandfather.
(d) Her uncle.

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

6. What was Chanel's father's name?
(a) Albert.
(b) Claude.
(c) Phillipe.
(d) Gérard.

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

8. 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) A life on her own.
(c) A man to chose her above all others.
(d) For marriage to be outlawed.

9. At what age did Chanel leave the orphanage?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixteen.

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

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

12. Who was the first of Chanel's family to work as a peddler?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her great-grandfather.
(d) Her father.

13. In what country was Coco Chanel born?
(a) France.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) America.

14. Which of the following is not described as an experience of Chanel's childhood?
(a) Huge family gatherings.
(b) Fashion shows.
(c) Public markets.
(d) Festivals.

15. In what year did Chanel's parents marry?
(a) 1875.
(b) Her parents did not marry.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1891.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was "Boy" Capel's first name?

2. In what season was Chanel born?

3. What was Chanel said to have become to "all the young lions of the age"?

4. For generations, what had Chanel's family made a living gathering?

5. When did Chanel's parents marry?

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