Ray Charles's first hit was "I Can't Stop Loving You."

The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Before the development of the classic blues style of the 1920s, blues was

a. 12 bars long with a standard chord progression b. flexible in form, governed by the text c. organized by call-and-response statements d. in AABA song form