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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rodriguez think is the most important thing for attracting a distributor?
(a) a big neame star
(b) a chance to meet the stars
(c) a higher percentage of the gross profits
(d) an attractive trailer

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

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

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

6. How does Rodriguez get his earliest exposure to films?
(a) his hours watching old movies on TV
(b) his mother's love of the movies
(c) his father's job in a movie theater
(d) the inspiration of an English teacher

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

8. How does Rodriguez refer to his operation while making El Mariachi?
(a) los locos productions
(b) la luna productions
(c) el estupido productions
(d) el cheapo productions

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

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

11. Which company was the only one that seemed to make a reasonable offer for EL MARIACHI?
(a) Film-Mex
(b) Tel-Star
(c) Million Dollar Video
(d) Mex-American

12. What star does Gallardo suggest they try to get for their film?
(a) Ricky Ricardo
(b) Cantinflas
(c) Lina Santos
(d) Ricardo Montalban

13. Who are the actors in Rodriguez' short film, Bedhead?
(a) animals
(b) his siblings
(c) homeless people
(d) schoolmates

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a professor at the film school think of Rodriguez' idea of making a film so cheaply?

2. Heading back to Texas after failing to sign a contract, what does Rodriguez tell himself?

3. What do they use for a dolly to move the camera in some scenes?

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

5. Which scenes of El Mariachi are shot first?

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