Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Salvador Dalí

Pierre Batcheff

Luis Buñuel

Marral
2 What is the man doing in the first shot?

Rolling a cigarette

Shaving

Sharpening a blade

Sneezing
3 What recognizable item of clothing does the man have in the first shot?

A bowtie

A dress

Suspenders

A watch
4 What is the woman’s response to the man’s opening her eyelid?

Casual submission

Tears

She is in fact sleeping.

Angry defiance
5 What film technique is used prominently to film the man on the bicycle?

Dissolve

Direct animation

Fast motion

Stop-motion animation
6 What type of Latin American music is used in the 1960 sound version of Un Chien Andalou supervised by Buñuel?

Méringue

Tejano

Salsa

Tango
7 What is in the cage on the table where the woman throws the book open?

A mouse

A snake

A photograph of Dalí

Rabbits
8 What is the woman’s response to seeing the man on the ground collapsed with his bicycle, when she arrives at the street?

Compassion

Amusement

No evident response

Anger
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?

The linens and the box

The books from the desk

The tennis racquet

The bicycle
10 What does the shot of the man’s hand dissolve into?

A woman’s armpit

The gender non-conforming figure

A sea urchin

The moon
11 What surrounds the gender non-conforming figure in the street?

A crowd of people

Ants

Moths

Donkeys
12 What does the gender non-conforming figure do while holding the box?

Stand in the middle of the street

Play with the stick

Look up at the man and woman

Smoke a cigarette
13 What does the man do while assaulting the woman?

Salivate

Fall asleep

Caress the linens

Collapse in a park
14 How does the woman protect herself during the man’s assault?

With a tennis racquet

With a long rope

With a guitar

With two guns
15 Two people of what profession are attached to the ropes holding the man back during his assault on the woman?

Policemen

Soldiers

Nuns

Priests
16 What character is the woman surprised to see lying on the bed upon her entering the other room during the man’s assault?

The man who sliced her eye

The first man

The gender non-conforming character

Herself
17 What does the intertitle say at the end of the scene showing the man’s assault of the woman?

“In Springtime”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Eight Years Earlier”

“Sixteen Years Earlier”
18 What is unusual or notable about the second man who appears at the apartment during the “Around Three in the Morning” sequence?

He has no mouth.

We do not see his face

He is wearing the same linens as the first man.

His eye is mutilated.
19 What does the intertitle say in the middle of the confrontation between the first man and the second man?

“Sixteen years earlier”

“Eight Years Later”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“In Springtime”
20 Which one of these film techniques is used prominently in the “Sixteen Years Earlier” Sequence?

Iris shot

Direct animation

Slow motion

Fast motion
21 How does the first man kill the second man?

He shoots him with two guns.

He mutilates his eye.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He beats him with the tennis racquet.
22 What insect does the woman see on the wall?

A bee

An ant

A moth

A caterpillar
23 How does the woman express defiance to the man upon leaving the apartment?

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She throws a book at him.

She sticks her tongue out.

She insults his mother.
24 What article of clothing does the man on the beach display to the woman?

A dress

A tie

A watch

A belt
25 What does the man do to the items he and the woman find on the beach?

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He tosses them away.

He steals them.

He jumps on them.

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