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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as one of Chanel's most scandalous affairs?

2. What was Coco Chanel's real first name?

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

4. How did Chanel feel about the place where she stayed after leaving the orphanage?

5. What part of Chanel's life is explored in the book's Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was significant about August in Saumer?

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

3. How was Chanel able to achieve success even through World War II?

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

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

6. What did Chanel's great-grandfather establish for his family?

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

8. Because of her mother's death, what happened in Chanel's life?

9. What sort of environments was Chanel surrounded by as a child?

10. Where did Chanel go after leaving the convent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways did Chanel's designs liberate women? What were women able to do with more ease because of the changes in fashion that Chanel was greatly responsible for?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, how did Chanel's designs impact fashion? What are some of Chanel's enduring designs? How did she change the face of fashion and the wardrobe of women forever?

Essay Topic 3

Chanel moved in very creative circles. She brushed shoulders with a number of the influential artists of her generation. Discuss the brilliant minds that surrounded Chanel and how they might have affected her own creativity.

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