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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. To whom did Johnny give the advice of "change your name and lower your voice"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Roy Orbison.
(c) Faron Young.
(d) Jerry Lee Lewis.

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

3. In what type of fields did Johnny work as a boy?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Corn.
(d) Soybean.

4. What special talent did the person in #39 have?
(a) Writing.
(b) Musical.
(c) Sports.
(d) Public speaking.

5. Who was the head of Sun Records in Memphis in 1955?
(a) Jerry Lee Lewis.
(b) Sam Phillips.
(c) Colonel Parker.
(d) Willie Nelson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Johnny's band in the city in #52?

3. What insects invaded the Cash farm one year?

4. What did Johnny comment on about being on the road?

5. At what age did Johnny begin to work in the fields?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What example did Johnny give to try to eliminate the romantic notions of rural life?

3. What was the country of Johnny Cash's ancestry and where did they eventually settle in America?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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