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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. Because of her inexperience in the fashion trade, what characterized Chanel's shop?

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

3. How did Chanel wear her collars which were unlike other women of the time?

4. What did Chanel design to sell at Biarritz?

5. What property did Chanel purchase in cash for her business?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Chanel earn her nickname, "Coco"?

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

6. Explain how Chanel used mannequins to promote her work.

7. Following her success as a hat designer, on what areas of fashion did Chanel focus her attention?

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

9. What inspired Chanel's English period?

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 Chanel's experience as a costumer. In what plays and productions was she involved? Why was she invited to Hollywood and how did that work out?

Essay Topic 2

Chanel's life is the classic rags-to-riches story. Compare and contrast the poverty of her youth with the wealth and success she experienced at the height of her career.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Chanel's desire to create practical clothes for women. Describe the fashion during the Belle Époque and how Chanel desires to go in another direction with fashion. How were her designs more practical for the woman? What was impractical about the popular fashion before Chanel came along?

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