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?
Sneezing

Rolling a cigarette

Sharpening a blade

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

A bowtie

A dress

A watch
4 What is the woman’s response to the man’s opening her eyelid?
She is in fact sleeping.

Tears

Angry defiance

Casual submission
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?
Tango

Méringue

Salsa

Tejano
7 What is in the cage on the table where the woman throws the book open?
A mouse

A snake

Rabbits

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

Amusement

Compassion

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

The linens and the box

The books from the desk

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

The gender non-conforming figure

A woman’s armpit

A sea urchin
11 What surrounds the gender non-conforming figure in the street?
Donkeys

A crowd of people

Moths

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

Play with the stick

Look up at the man and woman

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

Collapse in a park

Caress the linens

Salivate
14 How does the woman protect herself during the man’s assault?
With a tennis racquet

With a long rope

With two guns

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

Nuns

Priests

Policemen
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 first man

The gender non-conforming character

The man who sliced her eye
17 What does the intertitle say at the end of the scene showing the man’s assault of the woman?
“Eight Years Earlier”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Sixteen Years Earlier”

“In Springtime”
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.

We do not see his face

His eye is mutilated.

He has no mouth.
19 What does the intertitle say in the middle of the confrontation between the first man and the second man?
“Eight Years Later”

“In Springtime”

“Sixteen years earlier”

“Around Three in the Morning”
20 Which one of these film techniques is used prominently in the “Sixteen Years Earlier” Sequence?
Iris shot

Fast motion

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?
An ant

A moth

A caterpillar

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 watch

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

He tosses them away.

He steals them.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

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