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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 is the name of Johnny's only son?

2. In what branch of the military did Johnny serve?

3. How did Johnny's mother earn money for his voice lessons?

4. In what city did Johnny and his new wife settle in 1955?

5. What was Johnny Cash's grandfather's profession?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did the Cash family move in 1934?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readers may find Johnny's use of humor a bit surprising due to Johnny's imposing physical demeanor. Describe Johnny's sense of humor and then cite at least two examples of humor used in the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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