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

2. In the foreword, how is Chanel's work ethic described upon her return to Paris after her exile?
(a) Complaisant.
(b) Exhausting.
(c) Tyrannical.
(d) Inefficient.

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

4. In the city where Chanel was born, for how long had women's fashion gone unchanged?
(a) For a hundred years.
(b) For decades.
(c) For not very long.
(d) For fifty years.

5. What is described as one of Chanel's most scandalous affairs?
(a) An affair with a married royal.
(b) An affair with the French Prime Minister.
(c) An affair with a German officer.
(d) An affair with a Hollywood star.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Chanel's sister's name?

2. What was Chanel's father's name?

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

4. What property did Chanel's great-grandfather rent?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What made Chanel memorable to the people who met her?

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

4. How is Chanel's style of working after her return to Paris described?

5. How did Chanel's relationships with aristocrats influence her work?

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

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

8. In business terms, how important was Chanel's relationship with Arthur "Boy" Capel?

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

10. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

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