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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Rodriguez meet Gary Oldman and Francis Ford Coppola?
(a) at a movie premiere
(b) shopping on Rodeo Drive
(c) in the Columbia commissary
(d) at the Golden Globe Awards

3. What does Rodriguez say a film school teaches?
(a) how to find investors for a movie project
(b) how to make a big budget movie or how to make contacts
(c) how to buy expensive equipment
(d) how to enter film contests

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

5. What inspires Rodriguez enough to do two takes of one scene?
(a) a turtle walking to town with the Mariachi
(b) Azul and his jacket
(c) a chase scene between the villians and the Mariachi.
(d) the Mariachi drinking from a coconut

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a critic say about EL MARIACHI?

2. Why does Rodriguez do the subtitling himself?

3. Even though enormous sums of money are being dangled in front of him, what is Rodriguez' actual financial condition?

4. What happens to Rodriguez after spending hours on editing his film?

5. For what event is Rodriguez driving himself to finish editing El Mariachi?

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