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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following was not described as a popular fashion at the end of the 1800s?
(a) Short boots.
(b) Slender waists.
(c) High collars.
(d) Foulard caps.

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

6. When she was twenty years old, in what kind of establishment was Chanel offered a job?
(a) A shop.
(b) A shoe factory.
(c) A tailor's shop.
(d) A cafe.

7. From which village did Chanel's family come?
(a) Ponteils.
(b) Lautrec.
(c) Ornes.
(d) Moulins.

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

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

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

11. When did Chanel's parents marry?
(a) Two months before her birth.
(b) A few months after her birth.
(c) Never.
(d) Three years after her birth.

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

13. What was the advantage of men's clothing at the time of Chanel's birth?
(a) Men's clothing was less expensive.
(b) Men's clothing designs were elegantly simple.
(c) Men's clothing allowed freedom of movement.
(d) Men's clothing was made from long-lasting fabrics.

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

15. What did the city Chanel was born in have a great love for?
(a) Fashion.
(b) Equestrianism.
(c) Music.
(d) Boating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Chanel's life is explored in the book's Introduction?

2. What does biographer Edmonde Charles-Roux say Chanel tried to conceal her entire life?

3. In what season was Chanel born?

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

5. What occupation was Chanel's father?

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