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

2. Why does Rodriguez determine to stay in the Pharmaco study?
(a) to keep from having to borrow money
(b) to get the rest he needs
(c) to prove that he is a man
(d) to get out of going to class

3. Why does Newman call Rodriguez?
(a) to tell him he loves the trailer and that he wants to work with him
(b) to get his phone number in Texas
(c) to ask for any other demos Rodriguez has
(d) to say he cannot use EL MARIACHI

4. What comes of the efforts to get Lina Santos, a Mexican movie and TV star, to act in El Mariachi?
(a) They never get in to see her.
(b) Her agent demands too much money.
(c) She agrees and then backs out.
(d) She still will not commit to being in the movie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What results if any of the rules are broken at the Pharmaco study?

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

4. Who is Peter Marquardt?

5. How does Rodriguez decide to label his film in the credits?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Rodriguez say helped him improve his academic record by his junior year in high school?

2. Describe the premise of the story for EL MARIACHI.

3. Right after finishing his editing of the movie, what causes Rodriguez to begin doubting himself?

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

5. How does Rodriguez begin trying to market his film?

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

7. What does Rodriguez write about getting into the Pharmaco study?

8. How does Rodriguez begin his book?

9. Why does Rodriguez turn down the first offer he is given for the movie?

10. Tell something about Rodriguez' borrowed camera.

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