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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 brought Chanel back to Paris?

2. What was Chanel's sister's name?

3. In what year did Chanel return to Paris fashion?

4. What was "Boy" Capel's first name?

5. Which of the following events was not described as happening when Chanel was born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Chanel's father do for a living?

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

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

5. Emotionally, how important was Chanel's relationship with Arthur "Boy" Capel?

6. What are some pieces of fashionable styles for men named in the Introduction of the book?

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

8. What brought Chanel back to Paris in 1954?

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

10. What caused the decline and collapse of French rural communities in the 1800s?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the setting of the book. How did the setting and the environment that Chanel was a part of affect her outlook and design aesthetic? What was going on in the world of fashion in France at the start of her career that allowed Chanel to become successful? Would Chanel have been as successful if she were from a different country? Why or why not?

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