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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 was the name of Johnny's home in Jamaica?
(a) Valley View.
(b) Montego Manse.
(c) Skylark Mountain.
(d) Cinnamon Hill.

2. How did Johnny's mother earn money for his voice lessons?
(a) She cleaned houses.
(b) She took in laundry.
(c) She made custom dresses.
(d) She worked in a restaurant.

3. Where did the Cash family move to in 1934?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Little Rock.
(d) Dyess Colony.

4. What boyhood friend did Johnny recall while driving toward Northern California one day?
(a) Paul Branson.
(b) Pete Barnhill.
(c) Pat Winston.
(d) Petey Jackson.

5. In what year was Johnny Cash born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Johnny's father's name?

2. What part of his body did the person in #62 receive injuries in a car accident?

3. What was the life goal of the person in #22?

4. Which Sun label musician preached that the musicians were leading their fans to hell?

5. Who was the head of Sun Records in Memphis in 1955?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the three questions Johnny was always asked in interviews and what were his responses?

2. What tragedy befell the Cash family regarding Johnny's older brother, Jack?

3. Where was Johnny born and what were the times like for the Cash family?

4. What advice did Johnny get from a voice teacher and what did he wish he had learned about his voice?

5. What were the personal tragedies experienced by Johnny's good friend, Roy Orbison?

6. What crime occurred at the Cash's Cinnamon Hill home one day in 1994?

7. Who were Johnny's two wives and how many children did he have?

8. What explanation did Johnny give for not performing Kris Kristofferson's song "City of New Orleans"?

9. How did the song "Blue Suede Shoes" come to be written?

10. What were Johnny's parents' differing opinions of his music and how did they spur him on to success?

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