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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the budget for transferring the film to video come in at?
(a) twice what Rodriguez had estimated
(b) $500 less than the original budget
(c) half of the original budget
(d) only $100

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

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

4. What is the best way to describe Rodriguez' style of film making?
(a) cheap and amateurish
(b) quick and quirky
(c) fast and effective
(d) simple and plotless

5. In his TV interview, what does Rodriguez give the viewers?
(a) tips about creating a film with a limited budget
(b) free copies of his CD
(c) stand up comedy jokes about movie making
(d) offers to hold movie making classes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he learn how to do because of needing to do only one take of a scene?

2. How do Rodriguez and Gallardo meet all the people who end up helping them?

3. What advice does Rodriguez recall as he starts work on his movie?

4. Who are the actors in Rodriguez' short film, Bedhead?

5. Why does Rodriguez overlook small mistakes he notices while shooting El Mariachi?

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