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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Johnny's tour bus?

2. Which celebrity once told Johnny that "The higher up the ladder you get, the brighter your ass shines."?

3. Who was Johnny's good friend and neighbor who lost his wife and children?

4. What was the name of Johnny's home in Jamaica?

5. Johnny described a ________________ between the young musicians in the 1950s.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Johnny's perspective on the term "country"?

4. How did Johnny meet Sam Phillips of Sun Records and what was the first record he recorded?

5. What did Johnny relate about the hard life of working in the cotton fields as a boy?

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

7. What did Johnny say about the friendship between the young musicians he knew during the 1950s?

8. What did Johnny recall about himself and the other musicians who shared the Sun recording label in the 1950s?

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

10. Who were "The Tennessee Two" and how did Johnny meet up with them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the book. Why would musicians have a lonely life even though it may have seemed exciting and glamorous to other people? Why would Vivian have had an especially lonely life being the wife of Johnny Cash? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Johnny Cash. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were some of his negative characteristics? What were his hopes and fears? What were his primary motivations during his life?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the overall setting and time period for Johnny's childhood. What was America like during this time period? What was the American South like during this time period? How important are the time period and setting to the attitudes and issues of Johnny, his family and friends?

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