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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Chanel said to have become to "all the young lions of the age"?
(a) A target.
(b) A darling.
(c) A distraction.
(d) A trophy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the city where Chanel was born, what was August known as?

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

3. What made Chanel memorable to everyone she met?

4. What was the advantage of men's clothing at the time of Chanel's birth?

5. What influenced the design of men's clothes when Chanel was growing up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Etienne Balsan?

2. Emotionally, how important was Chanel's relationship with Arthur "Boy" Capel?

3. What are some pieces of fashionable styles for men named in the Introduction of the book?

4. What caused the decline and collapse of French rural communities in the 1800s?

5. What does Charles-Roux explain Chanel strove for her whole life to conceal?

6. In Saumer, what influenced women's fashion at the time of Chanel's birth?

7. What was the result of Chanel's affair with a German officer?

8. When did Chanel's parents marry, and what did it mean for the family?

9. Where was Chanel's family from, and where was she herself born?

10. Who was named as the fashion-setters at the end of the 1800s?

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