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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, "Sundancing".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the advantage to Rodriguez after being admitted into the University of Texas film school?
(a) more time to make his films
(b) connections to Hollywood
(c) good critiques of his methods
(d) access to the equipment he needed

3. What enhances Rodriguez' technical skills?
(a) learning how to raise money
(b) learning how to operate a camera
(c) learning how to do makeshift lighting
(d) learning how to handle all the postproduction details

4. Who is the first celebrity Rodriguez meets on a movie set?
(a) Bruce Willis
(b) Arnold Schwarzenegger
(c) Angela Landsbury
(d) Pee Wee Herman

5. What does Rodriguez have in addition to his large office at Columbia?
(a) a corporation based in Texas called Los Hooligans Productions, Inc
(b) an office on Rodeo Drive
(c) use of a private jet
(d) a house in Burbank, CA

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Alfonso Arau in Toronto?

2. What will Rodriguez' first feature length film be about?

3. What does Rodriguez say a film school teaches?

4. Why is Rodriguez exhausted before going to Pharmaco?

5. Why does Rodriguez want to explain his process to the world?

(see the answer key)

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