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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offer does a Spanish action movie production company make to Rodriguez and Gallardo?
(a) to make a Spanish video action movie for him for $30,000
(b) to go on the company's payroll as directors
(c) to send them to a Mexican film school
(d) to buy all their short films

2. What do Rodriguez and his roommate bring to read during the Pharmaco study?
(a) books on film making
(b) the same Stephen King book
(c) The Last of the Mohicans
(d) a John Grisham novel

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

4. Because of working with limited equipment and on a tight budget, what skill does Rodriguez develop?
(a) steady handheld camera skills
(b) location negotiation skills
(c) improvizational filming skills
(d) previsualization skills

5. What short Rodriguez film wins the University of Missouri Fine Arts Competition?
(a) The Mariachi
(b) Redhead
(c) Bedhead
(d) The Last Carnival

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Rodriguez' first short films get shown?

2. What does Juan Suarez offer to do for the movie?

3. How does Rodriguez obtain his first VCR?

4. What are three important locations Rodriguez and Gallardo look for in Mexico?

5. How do Rodriguez and Gallardo rate the Spanish films starring at least one famous actor?

(see the answer key)

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