NMT National Multi-Subject (Ukraine) · Ukrainian Language and Literature (NMT)

Language, Grammar and Literature

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  1. How many letters does the modern Ukrainian alphabet contain?
  2. Which group of letters exists in the Ukrainian alphabet but not in the Russian alphabet?
  3. In which year was Taras Shevchenko's first collection of poems, Kobzar, published?
  4. Who wrote the dramatic poem Lisova pisnia (Forest Song)?
  5. Which work, first published in 1798, is regarded as the beginning of modern literature in vernacular Ukrainian?
  6. Ivan Franko's tale Zakhar Berkut is set in the Carpathians during which historical event?
  7. Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors describes the life of which community?
  8. How many grammatical cases does a Ukrainian noun have?
  9. What is the vocative case used for in Ukrainian, as in the form Oleksandre!?
  10. Which case does the Ukrainian preposition без (without) require, as in без хліба?
  11. In poetry, what is an iamb?
  12. A four-line stanza rhymes in the pattern ABAB. What is this rhyme called?
  13. On which date is the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language celebrated?
  14. What does the Constitution of Ukraine say about the state language?
  15. What is a duma in Ukrainian folklore?
  16. Panas Myrny and Ivan Bilyk wrote the social novel Khiba revut voly, yak yasla povni. What is its central theme?
  17. Lina Kostenko's Marusia Churai is written in which form?
  18. Which novel by Oles Honchar, published in 1968, uses a Cossack-era church as a symbol of the nation's heritage?
  19. Which 18th-century wandering philosopher and poet wrote the cycle Sad bozhestvennykh pisen (Garden of Divine Songs)?
  20. The medieval epic Slovo o polku Ihorevim (The Tale of Igor's Campaign) describes what?
  21. Which poem by Taras Shevchenko, written in 1845, begins with the request to be buried on a mound in the wide steppe?
  22. What does the Latin title of Lesya Ukrainka's poem Contra spem spero mean?
  23. Which type of folk songs is traditionally sung around Christmas in Ukraine?
  24. In which word must an apostrophe be written?
  25. In the line 'The willow bowed its head in sorrow', which literary device is used?
  26. In the phrase 'quiet silver moonlight', what are the words 'quiet' and 'silver'?
  27. How many parts of speech are traditionally distinguished in Ukrainian grammar?
  28. Which of these sentences contains a noun in the instrumental case?
  29. Which sentence is a complex sentence with a subordinate clause?
  30. Which term describes the 1920s generation of Ukrainian writers and artists, many of whom were repressed in the 1930s?
  31. Lesya Ukrainka's Lisova pisnia is best described by which genre?
  32. Taras Shevchenko's poem Haidamaky is set against which historical event?
  33. Ivan Franko's poem Moisei (Moses) is usually read as what?
  34. Which metre describes the English line 'the RIVer RUNS beNEATH the OLD stone BRIDGE'?
  35. A poem has lines made of four feet, each consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one. What is the metre?
  36. Which 1619 work, printed at Yevye near Vilnius, was an influential grammar of the Church Slavonic language by a scholar of the Ruthenian lands?
  37. Olha Kobylianska's novella Zemlia (Earth) deals with which conflict?
  38. Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky's Kaidasheva simia (The Kaidash Family) belongs to which literary trend?
  39. Which plot element comes immediately before the denouement in the classical structure of a story?

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