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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. Which news broadcaster did Johnny snarl at in an interview prior to a Carnegie Hall concert?

2. What special treatment did celebrities receive at the Betty Ford Clinic?

3. What was a big source of the fights between Johnny and his first wife, Vivian?

4. What disease did June's mother contract?

5. In what year did June's mother die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Johnny say about his first wife, Vivian's, opinion of his musician's lifestyle?

2. How was Johnny's addiction recovery complicated by pain killers necessary after some medical procedures?

3. What were the two events that included fire and explosions that could have ended Johnny's life?

4. How did Johnny's friends try to intervene in his drug abuse and how did the death of Hopi Indian, Peter LaFarge, impact him?

5. What did Johnny do on stage during a concert he played with June Carter in 1961 and what was the state of their relationship after that?

6. What was Johnny's "Man in White" project?

7. What was the difference in feeling that Johnny had about his father and mother?

8. What is Bon Aqua and what was the legend associated with it?

9. Explain Johnny's relationship with June's parents, Maybelle and Ezra.

10. What was Johnny's experience at the Betty Ford Clinic and how did he face his substance addiction every day afterward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

From what you can glean from Johnny's descriptions, create a brief character study of Johnny's father. 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 created the friction between him and Johnny? How did he reconcile with him? What emotional damage was done to the relationship?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Cash's use of regionalism in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of regionalism and explain why Cash used them where he did. Why did Cash divide the book into sections with the identity of his his homes?

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