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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 did Boy's transfer away from the front lines allow him to do?

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

3. Where did Balsan allow Chanel to open up a millinery shop?

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

5. Who lived nearby to Chanel's millinery shop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What role did Vogue magazine play when Chanel began mass-producing dresses?

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

10. What characterized Chanel's Russian period?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significant romantic relationships in Chanel's life. Describe the men in her life. How did she feel about them? Why did the relationships end? Why did Chanel never marry? Who did she claim was the one true love in her life? How did these men impact her life?

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

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?

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