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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 year did Johnny first meet the Carters?

2. Who was Johnny's manager who first put Johnny and June together in a show?

3. What did Johnny say it was difficult to find?

4. What culture did Johnny study during this period?

5. What type of songs was Ed McCurdy famous for singing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Johnny's feelings regarding a near-death experience in 1988.

2. What was Johnny's perspective on not being ready to retire even though he could afford to do so?

3. 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?

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

5. What did Johnny say about the decades of highs and lows in his career?

6. What was Johnny's decision to announce his Christianity on television and what were some of the repercussions of his decision?

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

8. What did Johnny say about meeting four U.S. Presidents?

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

10. When and where did Johnny first come in contact with the Carter family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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