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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 garment gave Chanel her first major commercial success?
(a) A folded-collar blouse.
(b) A silk capelet.
(c) A beaded ladies' dinner jacket.
(d) A corset-less suit.

2. At what age did Chanel decide to enter the novitiate?
(a) Eighteen years old.
(b) Twenty years old.
(c) Ten years old.
(d) Sixteen years old.

3. Because of her inexperience in the fashion trade, what characterized Chanel's shop?
(a) Inconsistent business hours.
(b) A sense of looseness.
(c) Ill-fitting clothes.
(d) Underpriced merchandise.

4. Who lived nearby to Chanel's millinery shop?
(a) Adrienne Chanel.
(b) Pierre Reverdy.
(c) Boy Capel.
(d) George Clemenceau.

5. What major event occurred in 1914 which affected Chanel's work?
(a) Downtown Paris flooded destroying Chanel's design shop.
(b) The Germans invaded France.
(c) A labor strike prevented the manufacture of fabrics.
(d) A legislative election was held.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which commission was Boy Capel transferred by Clemenceau?

2. What did Chanel design to sell at Biarritz?

3. In addition to Adrienne, who did Chanel recruit to wear her fashions around town?

4. During Chanel's Russian Period, what did she incorporate into her fashions?

5. What did Chanel introduce to her collections in 1932?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role did Vogue magazine play when Chanel began mass-producing dresses?

2. What was different about what Chanel wore to the racetrack?

3. What inspired Chanel's English period?

4. Following her success as a hat designer, on what areas of fashion did Chanel focus her attention?

5. What characterized Chanel's Russian period?

6. What effect did the First World War have on women's fashion?

7. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

8. What happened when Balsan found out about Chanel's relationship with Capel?

9. In what way did the invention of the motor vehicle highlight the impracticalities of women's fashion?

10. According to Chanel, what made her successful in designing fashion for society?

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