Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Marral

Luis Buñuel

Pierre Batcheff

Salvador Dalí
2 What is the man doing in the first shot?

Sneezing

Sharpening a blade

Rolling a cigarette

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

A dress

A bowtie

Suspenders

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

Casual submission

Angry defiance

Tears

She is in fact sleeping.
5 What film technique is used prominently to film the man on the bicycle?

Direct animation

Dissolve

Stop-motion animation

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

Salsa

Méringue

Tejano

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

A snake

Rabbits

A photograph of Dalí

A mouse
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

Anger

Amusement

No evident response
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?

The books from the desk

The linens and the box

The bicycle

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

A sea urchin

A woman’s armpit

The moon

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

A crowd of people

Moths

Donkeys

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

Look up at the man and woman

Smoke a cigarette

Play with the stick

Stand in the middle of the street
13 What does the man do while assaulting the woman?

Salivate

Collapse in a park

Fall asleep

Caress the linens
14 How does the woman protect herself during the man’s assault?

With a tennis racquet

With two guns

With a long rope

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

Policemen

Nuns

Priests

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

Herself

The gender non-conforming character

The man who sliced her eye

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

“Sixteen Years Earlier”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“In Springtime”

“Eight 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 is wearing the same linens as the first man.

He has no mouth.

His eye is mutilated.

We do not see his face
19 What does the intertitle say in the middle of the confrontation between the first man and the second man?

“In Springtime”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Sixteen years earlier”

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

Fast motion

Iris shot

Slow motion

Direct animation
21 How does the first man kill the second man?

He beats him with the tennis racquet.

He mutilates his eye.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He shoots him with two guns.
22 What insect does the woman see on the wall?

A moth

A caterpillar

An ant

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

She throws a book at him.

She insults his mother.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She sticks her tongue out.
24 What article of clothing does the man on the beach display to the woman?

A tie

A dress

A belt

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

He steals them.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He tosses them away.

He jumps on them.

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