ACT English practice test 43

I appreciate you providing the questions, but I notice the PASSAGE text you've given me appears to be fragments without clear context or complete sentences. The passage seems to be missing substantial portions of text between these fragments, making it impossible to accurately identify which exact phrases should be underlined. To properly complete this task, I need: 1. The **complete, full passage text** as it appears in the original OCT English section 2. The **exact location of standalone digit markers** (1, 2, 3, etc.) in that passage The fragments you've provided ("critics, and fans have agreed that", "was a major influence", "Johnson claimed", etc.) don't form a coherent passage, and I cannot reliably determine: - Where each underlined phrase begins and ends - How the fragments connect - What the full context is for questions like Q8 and Q12 (which seem to ask about purpose/deletion rather than show clear underlined options) **Please provide the complete passage text exactly as it appears**, including where the standalone digit markers fall, and I'll render it correctly in HTML format.

The Real Johnny B. Goode?

No one person invented rock and roll single-handedly, but for years both that no individual is due more credit than Chuck Berry. The singer, songwriter, and guitarist behind such rock classics as “Maybelline” and “Johnny B. Goode” on everything from the songwriting of the Beatles to the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix.

He sold millions of records and in 1986 the first class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But in 2000, the music world was shocked when Berry was sued by an old piano player of his, Johnnie it was really he who had composed the music for nearly all of Berry’s hits.

Could the great Chuck Berry a fraud, and the virtually unknown Johnson the true force behind the songs that shaped rock and roll? It seemed at first, but eventually even the biggest Berry fans had to admit that certain details seemed Johnson’s story. The band that became the Chuck Berry Trio in 1955 was originally the Johnnie Johnson Trio, and Berry, a struggling local musician, had joined as a last-minute addition

Berry claimed sole responsibility for the many hits that soon followed, his gift for composition mysteriously dried up after he stopped working with Johnson. Berry was jailed in 1959 over shady goings-on at a nightclub he owned, and his only Top Ten hits after his 1963 release a silly novelty record called “My Ding-a-Ling” and a tune called “No Particular Place to Go,” which was clearly just the Berry classic “School Days” with new lyrics. Even lifelong Berry fan Bruce Springsteen years earlier that their songs were written in unusual keys for a guitar player—keys more commonly found in songs composed on piano.

Why had Johnnie not spoken up at the time? Tragically, Johnson was plagued by alcoholism for most of his life, and took little notice of what went on outside the studio. He also knew far less about things like rights and royalties than did the more educated and business-savvy Berry.

A judge dismissed the suit because too much time had elapsed and Johnnie Johnson passed away in 2005, so the world will never know exactly who wrote what in all those immortal songs. Johnson never claimed he wrote them alone, however, and Chuck Berry still deserves his legendary status even if all he did was pen the lyrics and play the guitar—but maybe the name of Johnnie Johnson should be no less famous than his.

English practice 43