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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

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

5. How does Rodriguez obtain his first VCR?
(a) through his father's love for gadgets
(b) through winning a contest
(c) through his wife's brother's hobby
(d) through a sales promotion with no money down

6. What does El Mariachi receive on airing its trailer on public access TV?
(a) an offer to finance the film
(b) negative reviews by critics
(c) inquiries about where the film was made
(d) positive responses from viewers

7. What are Gallardo's contributions to making El Mariachi?
(a) carrying equipment and setting up lights
(b) securing permission, using his relations, and finding actors
(c) editing the script and doing the titles
(d) composing the music and doing the sound effects

8. What does the budget for transferring the film to video come in at?
(a) twice what Rodriguez had estimated
(b) $500 less than the original budget
(c) only $100
(d) half of the original budget

9. What program does Rodriguez apply for at Pharmaco?
(a) an outpatient study
(b) a $7,000 study
(c) a $3,000 study
(d) a weekend study

10. What does Rodriguez worry about before going to Pharmaco?
(a) the isolation from his family
(b) the time he will lose
(c) the fear of failing the physical
(d) the side effects caused by medical experiments

11. What does Juan Suarez offer to do for the movie?
(a) to compose music for the movie
(b) to find locations
(c) to make the costumes
(d) to hold the camera

12. Why does Rodriguez have to work faster at the cable station?
(a) It is about to be closed.
(b) It is being sold to new owners.
(c) It is going public.
(d) It is moving to another city.

13. What interests the professor in Rodriquez' work?
(a) that his short films are creative but rough
(b) that he has never won a short film award
(c) that his work shows signs of genius
(d) that his award-winning short films were done by him alone

14. How does Rodriguez get his earliest exposure to films?
(a) his hours watching old movies on TV
(b) the inspiration of an English teacher
(c) his mother's love of the movies
(d) his father's job in a movie theater

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Javier's offer for the rights to EL MARIACHI?

2. What do they use for a dolly to move the camera in some scenes?

3. What makes it necessary to improvise?

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

5. How does Rodriguez decide to label his film in the credits?

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