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?

A watch

A bowtie

Suspenders

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

Tears

Angry defiance

She is in fact sleeping.

Casual submission
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

Salsa

Méringue

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

A mouse

A photograph of Dalí

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?

Anger

Compassion

No evident response

Amusement
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?

The books from the desk

The linens and the box

The tennis racquet

The bicycle
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?

Ants

Moths

Donkeys

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

Look up at the man and woman

Play with the stick

Smoke a cigarette

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 long rope

With a guitar

With two guns

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

Soldiers

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 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?

“In Springtime”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“Sixteen Years Earlier”

“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?

His eye is mutilated.

He has no mouth.

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?

“Around Three in the Morning”

“In Springtime”

“Eight Years Later”

“Sixteen years earlier”
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 strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He mutilates his eye.

He shoots him with two guns.

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

A moth

A bee

A caterpillar

An ant
23 How does the woman express defiance to the man upon leaving the apartment?

She insults his mother.

She sticks her tongue out.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

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

A watch

A dress

A tie

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

He jumps on them.

He steals them.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He tosses them away.

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