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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rodriguez plan to make single shot weapons appear to be semi-automatic?
(a) through digital manipuation
(b) though a soft filter lens
(c) through careful editing
(d) through prop enhancement

2. Who is Consuelo Gomez?
(a) a seamstress who makes cheap costumes
(b) an inexperienced actress to play the role of Domino
(c) the caterer for the movie
(d) a film editor to work on the movie

3. What happens to Rodriguez after spending hours on editing his film?
(a) His back goes out
(b) He has a reaction to the Pharmaco experiment.
(c) He accidentally erases all his work.
(d) He starts losing his vision.

4. What is ICM?
(a) International Cinema Marketing
(b) a small fim producing copany
(c) a major talent agency
(d) a distribution company

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

6. Where do Rodriguez' first short films get shown?
(a) a Mexican local television channel and in dance clubs
(b) in a sports bar in Mexico
(c) in class at his high school
(d) in his garage

7. Doing the Pharmaco study, what does Rodriguez call himself?
(a) a starving artist
(b) a vampire bat
(c) a human lab rat
(d) a pin cushion

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

9. What does Rodriguez plan to do about using a camera he is not familiar with?
(a) read the owner's manual
(b) take a crash course
(c) improvise and learn the hard way
(d) hire a good cameraman

10. Who helps with shooting the chase scene?
(a) NASCAR drivers
(b) low riders
(c) local teenage drivers
(d) the local police

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

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

13. Why is Rodriguez exhausted before going to Pharmaco?
(a) traveling back and forth to Mexico
(b) working hard on his short films and working two jobs
(c) staying up late every night editing
(d) trying to keep his grades up at the University of Texas

14. What does Juan Suarez offer to do for the movie?
(a) to compose music for the movie
(b) to hold the camera
(c) to find locations
(d) to make the costumes

15. What does Rodriguez decide to do before doing a full edit of the film?
(a) make a rough edit at home
(b) ask advice from Quentin Tarantino
(c) take a class on movie editing
(d) take it to his university professor

Short Answer Questions

1. What enhances Rodriguez' technical skills?

2. Which company was the only one that seemed to make a reasonable offer for EL MARIACHI?

3. Why does Rodriguez turn down volunteer help on making his movie?

4. How does Rodriguez refer to his operation while making El Mariachi?

5. What inspires Rodriguez enough to do two takes of one scene?

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