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

2. What was Chanel's role in her theatre performances?

3. How is the shop described where Chanel was sent to work?

4. What did nostalgics lament about the direction of post-war fashion?

5. What did Chanel do in order to have her fashions publicized?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Chanel use her friends to find commercial success?

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

3. What inspired Chanel's English period?

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

5. How did Chanel benefit from the invasion of France in 1914?

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

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

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

9. What was special about Chanel's work for the 1924 dance operetta, Blue Train?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the conclusion of Chanel and Her World. Describe the last years of Chanel's career. Was Chanel successful until the end of her life? Did she remain as hardworking and innovative as she was in her earlier years before her exile?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Chanel's personality and work ethic. Describe her personality. Describe her work ethic. How might her personality and work ethic have helped her become so successful?

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