Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Salvador Dalí

Marral

Pierre Batcheff

Luis Buñuel
2 What is the man doing in the first shot?

Rolling a cigarette

Shaving

Sneezing

Sharpening a blade
3 What recognizable item of clothing does the man have in the first shot?

A bowtie

Suspenders

A watch

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

Casual submission

Angry defiance

She is in fact sleeping.

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

Dissolve

Direct animation

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?

Tango

Méringue

Salsa

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

A mouse

Rabbits

A photograph of Dalí

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

Amusement

No evident response

Compassion

Anger
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?

The books from the desk

The bicycle

The tennis racquet

The linens and the box
10 What does the shot of the man’s hand dissolve into?

The moon

A sea urchin

A woman’s armpit

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

Donkeys

Moths

A crowd of people

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

Smoke a cigarette

Stand in the middle of the street

Look up at the man and woman

Play with the stick
13 What does the man do while assaulting the woman?

Fall asleep

Caress the linens

Salivate

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

With a guitar

With two guns

With a long rope

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

Nuns

Priests

Policemen

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?

The gender non-conforming character

Herself

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?

“In Springtime”

“Eight Years Earlier”

“Sixteen Years Earlier”

“Around Three in the Morning”
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.

His eye is mutilated.

He is wearing the same linens as the first man.

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?

“Eight Years Later”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Sixteen years earlier”

“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?

An ant

A bee

A caterpillar

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

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She insults his mother.

She sticks her tongue out.

She throws a book at him.
24 What article of clothing does the man on the beach display to the woman?

A watch

A belt

A tie

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

He tosses them away.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He steals them.

He jumps on them.

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