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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. Who was Gabrielle Dorziat?
(a) Chanel's favorite assistant.
(b) A poet.
(c) An actress.
(d) A French diplomat's wife.

2. Who did Chanel choose as her lover from the 10th Chasseurs?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Etienne Balsan.
(c) Boy Capel.
(d) The Duke of Westminster.

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

4. What made Chanel different from the other girls at the novitiate?
(a) She dressed differently.
(b) She did not come from a wealthy family.
(c) She was an orphan.
(d) She had no interest in religious life.

5. As a young woman, on what did Adrienne Chanel focus her attention?
(a) Raising her siblings.
(b) Studying at university.
(c) Being accepted in high society.
(d) Having a career in fashion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chanel's nickname, Coco, come from?

2. What variety of artist provided Chanel unexpected exposure?

3. What were the 10th Chasseurs?

4. Who did Chanel select to be the director of design for her new line of jewelry?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Boy Capel die, and who helped Chanel through her grieving?

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

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

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

5. What decision was Chanel required to make when she turned eighteen?

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

7. What garment, common today, was conceived by Chanel?

8. How did late eighteenth-century photographs of Chanel already exhibit her unique style?

9. What was life at Balsan's chateau like for Chanel?

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

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