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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 bores Rodriguez the most during the study?
(a) the reruns of old TV movies
(b) the inane conversation of other lab rats
(c) the tasteless food they have to eat
(d) the slow pace of life at Pharmaco

2. What is ICM?
(a) a major talent agency
(b) a distribution company
(c) a small fim producing copany
(d) International Cinema Marketing

3. Who helps with shooting the chase scene?
(a) NASCAR drivers
(b) low riders
(c) local teenage drivers
(d) the local police

4. Who is Peter Marquardt?
(a) Rodriguez' roommate at the Pharmaco study.
(b) an agent who wants to sign Rodriguez
(c) Rodriguez's film school professor
(d) a doctor at the Pharmaco study

5. What are the weapons used in the film?
(a) guns rented from a pawnshop
(b) plastic toy store guns
(c) real guns borrowed from the police
(d) army surplus guns

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rodriguez and his roommate bring to read during the Pharmaco study?

2. How does Rodriguez refer to his operation while making El Mariachi?

3. What comes of the efforts to get Lina Santos, a Mexican movie and TV star, to act in El Mariachi?

4. What inspires Rodriguez enough to do two takes of one scene?

5. What is Rodriguez given in order to edit his film?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the progressive steps Rodriguez takes toward his film while in the Pharmaco study?

2. How does Rodriguez' friend Gallardo keep occupied while Rodriguez is in the study?

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

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

5. How does Rodriguez begin his book?

6. What does Rodriguez' brief association with Alfonzo Arau and his wife give him the impetus to do?

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

8. How does Rodriguez manage to shoot chase scenes and gun scenes in the movie?

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

10. How is the story of REBEL WITHOUT A CREW written?

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