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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. In what year did Chanel's parents marry?

2. What made Chanel memorable to everyone she met?

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

4. What does biographer Edmonde Charles-Roux say Chanel tried to conceal her entire life?

5. What was the style of the era when Chanel was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charles-Roux explain Chanel strove for her whole life to conceal?

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

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

4. What had Chanel's family done for generations?

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

6. Who was Etienne Balsan?

7. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

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

9. Where did Chanel go after leaving the convent?

10. What was significant about August in Saumer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the influential relationships in Chanel's life. How did these relationships impact Chanel's career and her style?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Chanel's self-imposed exile during and after WWII. Why did she go to Switzerland? What occurred in the fashion world while she was living in Switzerland? What spurred her to return to France?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Belle Époque. What is it and when did it occur? How does the fashion and opulence of that time period compare to the fashion of Chanel? Why did the Belle Époque come to an end?

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