Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?
Pierre Batcheff

Salvador Dalí

Luis Buñuel

Marral
2 What is the man doing in the first shot?
Sharpening a blade

Sneezing

Rolling a cigarette

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

A watch

A bowtie

Suspenders
4 What is the woman’s response to the man’s opening her eyelid?
Tears

She is in fact sleeping.

Angry defiance

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

Stop-motion animation

Dissolve

Fast motion
6 What type of Latin American music is used in the 1960 sound version of Un Chien Andalou supervised by Buñuel?
Salsa

Tango

Tejano

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

A snake

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?
Anger

No evident response

Amusement

Compassion
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?
The bicycle

The books from the desk

The tennis racquet

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

The gender non-conforming figure

A sea urchin

A woman’s armpit
11 What surrounds the gender non-conforming figure in the street?
Ants

A crowd of people

Moths

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

Stand in the middle of the street

Play with the stick

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

Fall asleep

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?
Soldiers

Priests

Nuns

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?
The first man

The man who sliced her eye

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”

“Around Three in the Morning”

“In Springtime”

“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?
His eye is mutilated.

We do not see his face

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?
“Around Three in the Morning”

“Sixteen years earlier”

“Eight Years Later”

“In Springtime”
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 beats him with the tennis racquet.

He mutilates his eye.

He shoots him with two guns.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.
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 throws a book at him.

She sticks her tongue out.

She insults his mother.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.
24 What article of clothing does the man on the beach display to the woman?
A watch

A tie

A belt

A dress
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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