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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 invention made the flaws of women's dress apparent?

2. What made Chanel different from the other girls at the novitiate?

3. As a young woman, on what did Adrienne Chanel focus her attention?

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

5. What were the first of Chanel's designs to become popular?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What inspired Chanel's English period?

3. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

4. What garment, common today, was conceived by Chanel?

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

6. What happened when Balsan found out about Chanel's relationship with Capel?

7. What effect did the First World War have on women's fashion?

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. Why was Boy Capel an ideal match for Chanel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

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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