| 1. | Merle Ronald Haggard is an American what music singer, guitarist and songwriter? |
| a. | | pop |
| b. | | ballad |
| c. | | jazz |
| d. | | country
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| 2. | Emerging from prison in the what, Haggard was one of the early innovators of the Bakersfield Sound? |
| a. | | 1950s |
| b. | | 1960s |
| c. | | 1970s |
| d. | | 1980s
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| 3. | His work in familiar country themes of jail, betrayal, drinking and wandering which include a directness that reflects his own life experience? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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| 4. | Haggard was born in Bakersfield what? |
| a. | | Texas |
| b. | | California |
| c. | | Washington |
| d. | | New Mexico
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| 5. | Haggard's older brother gave him a guitar when Merle was how many years old and he taught himself to play? |
| a. | | ten |
| b. | | tweleve |
| c. | | eight |
| d. | | five
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| 6. | Haggard's money problems caught up with him, and he was arrested for a robbery in? |
| a. | | 1955 |
| b. | | 1957 |
| c. | | 1958 |
| d. | | 1959
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| 7. | He was sent to prison in San Quentin for how many years? |
| a. | | 6 |
| b. | | 10 |
| c. | | 15 |
| d. | | 20
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| 8. | Haggard's first song was called what? |
| a. | | Life |
| b. | | Hard Times |
| c. | | Bad Luck |
| d. | | Skid Row
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| 9. | Haggard released a series of successful singles in the early what, including "Just Between the Two of Us",and "Strangers"? |
| a. | | 1950s |
| b. | | 1960s |
| c. | | 1970s |
| d. | | 1980s
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| 10. | In 1966, however, his second Capitol single, "Swinging Doors", was a Top Five hit and Haggard had become a nationally known superstar? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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