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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possibly could cause people to warn Rodriguez about the public?
(a) playing mind games with Rodriguez
(b) his ethnic background
(c) jealousy
(d) perhaps his media overexposure

2. What does Columbia do when Rodriguez turns down a $100,000 offer?
(a) lowers its final offer
(b) backs out on the deal
(c) calls his agents
(d) raises the offer to $150,000.

3. What write-up does Rodriguez particularly appreciate?
(a) Liz Smith's article about his family life
(b) Rex Reed's praise of his article
(c) Roger Ebert's article about his movie
(d) Mr. Blackwell's approval of his suit

4. What does a theater owner in Austin, Texas, tell Rodriguez he is doing?
(a) He is suing the Mexican film commission.
(b) He is showing El Miriachi every Saturday at midnight.
(c) He is ordering a print of El Mariachi.
(d) He is taking El Mariachi to the Berlin Film Festival.

5. What do the festival organizers decide to do after EL MARIACHI becomes so popular?
(a) They decide to add two more screenings.
(b) Take the movie out of the competition.
(c) Get Rodrigues to hold a seminar.
(d) Invite Rodriguez back again next year.

6. What news about Rodriguez spreads fast around Hollywood?
(a) how grainy his film is
(b) his unusual filmmaking and his talent
(c) how unmarketable his film is
(d) what a pest he makes of himself

7. After what do people start to recognize him on the street?
(a) a spot on Larry King Live
(b) his photo on the cover of People magazine
(c) an interview for the LA Times
(d) the premier of El Mariachi

8. What does ICM want to do with Rodriguez' diary?
(a) make it into a movie
(b) keep hit hidden from the press
(c) publish it as a book
(d) use it in his press releases

9. Besides the screening of his film, what bothers Rodriguez at the film festival?
(a) He has to answer questions at the end.
(b) He has to reveal his secrets.
(c) He has to give a speech before the movie starts.
(d) A large photo of him is up in the lobby.

10. What does John Watson, a producer, tell Rodriguez?
(a) The public will inevitably turn on him.
(b) The popularity of the movie will work against him.
(c) He will never repeat what he did in EL MARIACHI.
(d) He may just be a flash in the pan.

11. What convinces Columbia that Rodriguez should write a sequel?
(a) Very good notices in the press.
(b) Paramount tries to buy Rodriguez' contract.
(c) Demand for the movie to be made in English.
(d) Very positive audience response in the test screening.

12. Why does Rodriguez want to explain his process to the world?
(a) to let people know what a genius he is
(b) to teach a moral lesson
(c) to let people know anyone can make a movie
(d) to bring down the Hollywood moguls

13. What young movie maker is also at the festival screening his film, RESERVOIR DOGS?
(a) John Landis
(b) Roger Corman
(c) Stephen Spielberg
(d) Quentin Tarantino

14. What do some skeptics accuse Rodriguez of?
(a) seeking personal glory
(b) plagerism
(c) lying about the cost of the movie
(d) getting the big head

15. What is the bad news regarding EL MARIACHI?
(a) forty feet of it is destroyed during the transfer process
(b) Columbia decides to go straight to video
(c) some theaters cancel its bookings
(d) Mexican nationals picket the openings

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rodriguez not like to work with professional editors?

2. Why does Rodriguez do the subtitling himself?

3. What has created so much interest in the movie in Hollywood?

4. Where does Newman want to send El Mariachi?

5. What does Rodriguez admit to Jim, a fellow Texan?

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