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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven, "Postproduction, Take 3".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rodriguez plan to do about using a camera he is not familiar with?
(a) hire a good cameraman
(b) take a crash course
(c) improvise and learn the hard way
(d) read the owner's manual

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

4. In the meantime, what happens with the short film, Bedhead?
(a) It gets honorable mention at another film festival.
(b) It gets shown on German TV.
(c) It gets lost in the mail.
(d) It ties for first place at another festival.

5. What are the agents at ICM able to do?
(a) overcome Columbia's refusal to view the movie
(b) get the best bid for El Mariachi from Europe
(c) get Rodriguez the best visitor packages in Hollywood
(d) sell what is technically a foreign movie to a major American film company

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen at a test screening of EL MARIACHI?

2. Where does Rodriguez get the studio to do the first release of his movie?

3. What are Gallardo's contributions to making El Mariachi?

4. What special treatment does Rodriguez receive in Hollywood?

5. What does Rodriguez classify as the main reason for professional incompetence in making movies?

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