Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?

Pierre Batcheff

Marral

Salvador Dalí

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

Sneezing

Rolling a cigarette

Shaving

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?

Angry defiance

Tears

Casual submission

She is in fact sleeping.
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?

Tejano

Méringue

Salsa

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

A snake

A photograph of Dalí

Rabbits

A mouse
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 linens and the box

The tennis racquet

The bicycle

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

A woman’s armpit

A sea urchin

The moon

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

Donkeys

A crowd of people

Moths

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

Play with the stick

Stand in the middle of the street

Look up at the man and woman

Smoke a cigarette
13 What does the man do while assaulting the woman?

Fall asleep

Caress the linens

Collapse in a park

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

With a long rope

With a tennis racquet

With two guns

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

Soldiers

Nuns

Priests

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 gender non-conforming character

The man who sliced her eye

Herself
17 What does the intertitle say at the end of the scene showing the man’s assault of the woman?

“Around Three in the Morning”

“In Springtime”

“Eight Years Earlier”

“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 has no mouth.

He is wearing the same linens as the first man.
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?

Iris shot

Fast motion

Direct animation

Slow motion
21 How does the first man kill the second man?

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.

He beats him with the tennis racquet.

He mutilates his eye.

He shoots him with two guns.
22 What insect does the woman see on the wall?

A bee

A moth

An ant

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 watch

A tie

A dress

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

He tosses them away.

He jumps on them.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He steals them.

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