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

2. After hats, what did Chanel turn her attention to designing?
(a) Ball gowns.
(b) Active wear.
(c) Wedding dresses.
(d) Jewelry.

3. How did Boy Capel die?
(a) In a hotel fire.
(b) In an automobile accident.
(c) By a case of measles.
(d) From tuberculosis.

4. What did Chanel style her first summer home after?
(a) The Paris Museum of Natural History.
(b) Balsan's chateau.
(c) Buckingham palace.
(d) The orphanage she grew up in.

5. What variety of artist provided Chanel unexpected exposure?
(a) A portrait painter.
(b) A charicaturist.
(c) An animator.
(d) A fashion illustrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. After opening the shop in Biarritz, how many people did Chanel have in her employ?

2. The aristocrats and upper class of which country were served from Chanel's Biarritz shop?

3. To which of her acquaintances did Chanel share a very similar background?

4. What garment gave Chanel her first major commercial success?

5. From where did Chanel gain much of her business in 1914?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain Chanel's brief involvement with Hollywood.

4. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

5. In what way did Chanel's placement at a hosiery shop introduce her to high society?

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

7. What fascinated visitors to Chanel's Rue Cambon shop when it first opened?

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

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

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

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