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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 Chanel style her first summer home after?

2. How old was Chanel when her mother died?

3. At what age did Chanel decide to enter the novitiate?

4. Who did Chanel choose as her lover from the 10th Chasseurs?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Emilienne d'Alecon.

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

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

6. What characterized Chanel's Russian period?

7. Explain Chanel's brief involvement with Hollywood.

8. What inspired Chanel's English period?

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of the book. What is a biography? Is a biography guaranteed to be fact? Why or why not?

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