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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rodriguez able to do when he has access to two VCRs?
(a) add titles to his films
(b) shoot from multiple camera angles
(c) make two movies at one time
(d) edit his films

2. What makes it necessary to improvise?
(a) the lack of actors
(b) the lack of experience
(c) the lack of funds
(d) the lack of time

3. How does Rodriguez refer to Gallardo to the media who want to interview him?
(a) as the one who is financing the movie
(b) as the one who does all the talking
(c) as the one who has all the ideas
(d) as the one who wants to be famous

4. How much do Rodriguez and Gallardo estimate it will take to make their movie?
(a) $10,000
(b) $8,000
(c) $700
(d) $30,000

5. How do Rodriguez and Gallardo rate the Spanish films starring at least one famous actor?
(a) bad
(b) exciting
(c) serious competition
(d) well made

6. What star does Gallardo suggest they try to get for their film?
(a) Ricky Ricardo
(b) Lina Santos
(c) Cantinflas
(d) Ricardo Montalban

7. Which company was the only one that seemed to make a reasonable offer for EL MARIACHI?
(a) Million Dollar Video
(b) Tel-Star
(c) Film-Mex
(d) Mex-American

8. What does Rodriguez think is the most important thing for attracting a distributor?
(a) an attractive trailer
(b) a big neame star
(c) a chance to meet the stars
(d) a higher percentage of the gross profits

9. What comes with the next prize Bedhead wins in a film competition?
(a) a new 16mm movie camera
(b) $700 that he will use in El Mariachi
(c) an offer to go to Hollywood
(d) a school scholarship

10. Heading back to Texas after failing to sign a contract, what does Rodriguez tell himself?
(a) A contract will come from New York.
(b) It will come through and he will do everything by mail.
(c) Something good will come from his failure.
(d) He can raise more money and go back again.

11. What comes of the efforts to get Lina Santos, a Mexican movie and TV star, to act in El Mariachi?
(a) They never get in to see her.
(b) Her agent demands too much money.
(c) She agrees and then backs out.
(d) She still will not commit to being in the movie.

12. Who is Robert Newman?
(a) a studio head
(b) an ICM agent
(c) a financier
(d) a studio hiring agent

13. How do Rodriguez and Gallardo meet all the people who end up helping them?
(a) by accident
(b) through advertisements
(c) at the film school
(d) through an agency

14. What inspires Rodriguez enough to do two takes of one scene?
(a) Azul and his jacket
(b) the Mariachi drinking from a coconut
(c) a chase scene between the villians and the Mariachi.
(d) a turtle walking to town with the Mariachi

15. What do Rodriguez and his roommate bring to read during the Pharmaco study?
(a) a John Grisham novel
(b) books on film making
(c) the same Stephen King book
(d) The Last of the Mohicans

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the story of the book told?

2. Why is Rodriguez exhausted before going to Pharmaco?

3. How does Rodriguez plan to make single shot weapons appear to be semi-automatic?

4. Why does Rodriguez return to see Gallardo in Mexico?

5. How does Rodriguez sum up his pre-production activity for El Mariachi?

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