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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. Who was Johnny's first wife?

2. What song did Johnny later write about his experience on the farm?

3. In what year did Johnny Cash's ancestors settle in America?

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

5. In what country was the setting in #1 located?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where was Johnny Cash when he began writing this autobiography?

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

4. What were the lyrics in Johnny's song "Man in Black" that described why he always wore black?

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

6. What angst did Johnny suffer in the aftermath of the Cinnamon Hill robbery?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Religion takes on an almost human persona in this book. What was the source of the religious beliefs? How pervasive were the religious beliefs? What is this literary technique called? Cite examples that support this position.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Explain the role of women in the rural South in the mid-twentieth century. What precedents did they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions did they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have? What belief system about Southern women was evident in June and her mother and sisters? Explain.

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