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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is on Rodriguez' demo tape?
(a) BEDHEAD and the trailer of EL MARIACHI
(b) the rough cut version of EL MARIACHI
(c) reviews from major critics
(d) views of all the film show awards Rodriguez has won

2. Why does Rodriguez return to see Gallardo in Mexico?
(a) He needs a breat from editing.
(b) He needs Gallardo's moral support.
(c) He needs more money.
(d) He needs to re-record some of his lines.

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

4. What will Rodriguez' first feature length film be about?
(a) a family of sleepy siblings
(b) a boy lost in the Mexican desert
(c) a man named The Mariachi with a guitar full of weapons,
(d) a musician who wants to become a mariachi

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rodriguez determine to stay in the Pharmaco study?

2. What does El Mariachi receive on airing its trailer on public access TV?

3. How do Rodriguez and Gallardo meet all the people who end up helping them?

4. What does the budget for transferring the film to video come in at?

5. Who is Consuelo Gomez?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Rodriguez say helped him improve his academic record by his junior year in high school?

2. In Mexico, what is Rodriguez' first experience on a real movie set?

3. Where do Rodriguez and Gallardo first try to sell the movie?

4. Describe the first thing Rodriguez does in post production.

5. Unable to talk a famous actress into being in their movie, how is the problem solved?

6. Why does Rodriguez turn down the first offer he is given for the movie?

7. Describe briefly how improvising becomes a big part of preparing for shooting the movie.

8. Describe the premise of the story for EL MARIACHI.

9. Describe the continuity problem caused by the heat on the set of EL MARIACHI.

10. At what age did Rodriguez get interested in making movies and how did it begin?

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