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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. In what American state did Johnny Cash's ancestors eventually settle?

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

3. What beautiful sight did Johnny remember from living on the farm?

4. Which friend of Johnny's had a premonition of his own death?

5. To what country could Johnny Cash trace his family origins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who were Johnny's parents and in what year was Johnny Cash born?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What impact did Johnny's estranged relationship with his father have on Johnny's life? What emotional wounds did Johnny suffer? How did the rejection by his father impact Johnny's relationships with other people? State your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Johnny's? How did it affect him? How does it affect those impacted by Johnny's abuse? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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