Un Chien Andalou Quizzes

Un Chien Andalou Quiz 1

1 Who plays the man in the first scene?
Luis Buñuel

Salvador Dalí

Marral

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

Shaving

Sneezing

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

A dress

A watch

A bowtie
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?
Stop-motion animation

Dissolve

Fast motion

Direct 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 snake

A mouse

Rabbits

A photograph of Dalí
8 What is the woman’s response to seeing the man on the ground collapsed with his bicycle, when she arrives at the street?
No evident response

Amusement

Compassion

Anger
9 What does the woman lay on the bed?
The tennis racquet

The books from the desk

The bicycle

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

A woman’s armpit

The gender non-conforming figure

The moon
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?
Stand in the middle of the street

Smoke a cigarette

Play with the stick

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

Collapse in a park

Caress the linens

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

With a long rope

With a tennis racquet

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

Policemen

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 gender non-conforming character

The first man

Herself
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?
His eye is mutilated.

He is wearing the same linens as the first man.

We do not see his face

He has no mouth.
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”

“Eight Years Later”

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

Iris shot

Fast motion

Direct animation
21 How does the first man kill the second man?
He mutilates his eye.

He shoots him with two guns.

He beats him with the tennis racquet.

He strangles him with the chord attached to the piano.
22 What insect does the woman see on the wall?
A moth

An ant

A bee

A caterpillar
23 How does the woman express defiance to the man upon leaving the apartment?
She insults his mother.

She throws a book at him.

She makes an obscene gesture with her hand.

She sticks her tongue out.
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 jumps on them.

He gives them to the woman as a gift.

He tosses them away.

He steals them.

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