Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Luis Buñuel

Pierre Batcheff

Marral

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

Sneezing

Shaving

Sharpening a blade

Rolling a cigarette
3 What recognizable item of clothing does the man have in the first shot?

Suspenders

A watch

A dress

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

Angry defiance

She is in fact sleeping.

Tears

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

Fast motion

Direct animation

Dissolve

Stop-motion animation
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 photograph of Dalí

A mouse

A snake

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

Anger

Amusement

No evident response
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?

A woman’s armpit

A sea urchin

The gender non-conforming figure

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

Ants

Donkeys

Moths

A crowd of people
12 What does the gender non-conforming figure do while holding the box?

Smoke a cigarette

Play with the stick

Stand in the middle of the street

Look up at the man and woman
13 What does the man do while assaulting the woman?

Fall asleep

Collapse in a park

Salivate

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

With two guns

With a guitar

With a tennis racquet

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

Policemen

Nuns

Soldiers

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?

Herself

The first man

The man who sliced her eye

The gender non-conforming character
17 What does the intertitle say at the end of the scene showing the man’s assault of the woman?

“Sixteen Years Earlier”

“In Springtime”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“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?

We do not see his face

His eye is mutilated.

He is wearing the same linens as the first man.

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

“Sixteen years earlier”

“In Springtime”

“Eight Years Later”

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

Fast motion

Slow motion

Iris shot

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

He shoots him with two guns.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He mutilates his eye.

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

An ant

A moth

A bee

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

She sticks her tongue out.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She throws a book at him.

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

A dress

A watch

A tie

A belt
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 jumps on them.

He steals them.

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