Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Pierre Batcheff

Luis Buñuel

Marral

Salvador Dalí
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?

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

Casual submission

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?

Tango

Méringue

Salsa

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

A snake

A mouse

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?

Amusement

Compassion

Anger

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

The bicycle

The linens and the box

The tennis racquet

The books from the desk
10 What does the shot of the man’s hand dissolve into?

A woman’s armpit

The moon

A sea urchin

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

A crowd of people

Moths

Ants

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

Play with the stick

Smoke a cigarette

Look up at the man and woman

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 guitar

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?

Soldiers

Policemen

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

Herself

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?

“Eight Years Earlier”

“In Springtime”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“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?

We do not see his face

He has no mouth.

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?

“In Springtime”

“Sixteen years earlier”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Eight Years Later”
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 beats him with the tennis racquet.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He shoots him with two guns.

He mutilates his eye.
22 What insect does the woman see on the wall?

An ant

A caterpillar

A moth

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

She throws a book at him.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She insults his mother.

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

A belt

A dress

A tie

A watch
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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