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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rodriguez participate in to raise money?
(a) a sleep deprivation study
(b) a dance team performing in Mexico
(c) a drug study conducted by Pharmaco
(d) a short stint in the military

2. What do Rodriguez and Gallardo do to scope out the competition?
(a) got to movie sets in Mexico
(b) rent Spanish action videos
(c) conduct a survey of movie goers
(d) read books about Spanish film making

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

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

5. What does a professor at the film school think of Rodriguez' idea of making a film so cheaply?
(a) that it will fail
(b) that it can be done cheaper than that
(c) that they have planned well
(d) that it has possibilities

Short Answer Questions

1. What does El Mariachi receive on airing its trailer on public access TV?

2. What offer does a Spanish action movie production company make to Rodriguez and Gallardo?

3. Who is Robert Newman?

4. How much do Rodriguez and Gallardo estimate it will take to make their movie?

5. What does the budget for transferring the film to video come in at?

Short Essay Questions

1. At what age did Rodriguez get interested in making movies and how did it begin?

2. Discuss Rodriguez' period of depression during post production.

3. Unable to talk a famous actress into being in their movie, how is the problem solved?

4. Relate Rodriguez' encounter with the media when his trailer is aired on public television.

5. What are some of Carlos Gallardo's contributions to the making of the movie aside from starring as El Mariachi.

6. How does Rodriguez manage to shoot chase scenes and gun scenes in the movie?

7. Relate the daring step Rodriguez takes that will eventually make all the difference to his future.

8. What happens on the last day of shooting EL MARIACHI?

9. How is the story of REBEL WITHOUT A CREW written?

10. Describe the first thing Rodriguez does in post production.

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