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

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

3. What does Newman tell Rodriguez about the major film companies in Hollywood?
(a) He cannot get in the door.
(b) All of them are interested.
(c) He needs to remake the film for them.
(d) None of them like it.

4. How does Rodriguez refer to his operation while making El Mariachi?
(a) el estupido productions
(b) los locos productions
(c) el cheapo productions
(d) la luna productions

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What news about Rodriguez spreads fast around Hollywood?

4. What does Rodriguez decide he wants, even if he works for Hollywood?

5. Where does Newman want to send El Mariachi?

(see the answer key)

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