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Ukrainian Language and Literature for the NMT

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  1. In Ukrainian literature, who is the author of 'Eneida' (1798), the first published work written in modern vernacular Ukrainian?
  2. In Ukrainian literature, what genre best describes Kotliarevsky's dramatic work 'Natalka Poltavka'?
  3. In Ukrainian literature, which 18th-century philosopher and itinerant educator wrote the philosophical poetry collection 'Sad Bozhestvennykh Pisen'?
  4. In Ukrainian literature, what central thematic concept was advanced in the philosophical dialogues of Hryhorii Skovoroda?
  5. In Ukrainian literature, what famous lyric poem by Taras Shevchenko written in Pereyaslav in 1845 begins with 'Yak umru, to pokhovayte'?
  6. In Ukrainian literature, what satirical poem by Taras Shevchenko satirises the tsarist autocracy of the Russian Empire as a 'comedy'?
  7. In Ukrainian literature, which poem by Taras Shevchenko is dedicated to Yakiv de Balmen and contains the famous line 'Boritesya — poborete'?
  8. In Ukrainian literature, what is widely considered the first historical novel written in the Ukrainian language?
  9. In Ukrainian literature, who authored the realist socio-psychological novella 'Kaidasheva Simya' (The Kaidash Family)?
  10. In Ukrainian literature, which monumental socio-psychological novel was co-authored by Panas Myrny and Ivan Bilyk?
  11. In Ukrainian literature, which philosophical poem by Ivan Franko uses the biblical story of Moses leading the Israelites to reflect on the Ukrainian people?
  12. In Ukrainian literature, what historical novella by Ivan Franko depicts the resistance of the Carpathian community of Tukhlia against Mongol invaders in 1241?
  13. In Ukrainian literature, which impressionist novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky opens with the protagonist seeking respite from psychological exhaustion amidst sun, iron, and fields?
  14. In Ukrainian literature, which famous work by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky depicts the tragic love of Ivan and Marichka among the Hutsul folklore of the Carpathians?
  15. In Ukrainian literature, what poetic drama (drama-feeriya) by Lesya Ukrainka contrasts human compromise with the immortal spiritual beauty of nature through the nymph Mavka?
  16. In Ukrainian literature, which expressionist psychological novella by Vasyl Stefanyk depicts the sorrowful emigration of Ivan Didukh from Galicia to Canada?
  17. In Ukrainian literature, who wrote the first modernist urban novel in Ukrainian literature, 'Misto' (The City), featuring the provincial youth Stepan Radchenko?
  18. In Ukrainian literature, which psychological novella by Mykola Khvylovy explores the tragic moral conflict of a Cheka tribunal head who executes his own mother for the revolution?
  19. In Ukrainian literature, what satirical comedy by Mykola Kulish portrays a petty clerk who changes his Ukrainian surname to escape provincial origins?
  20. In Ukrainian literature, what historical novel in verse by Lina Kostenko dramatizes the trial of a 17th-century Cossack poetess accused of poisoning her faithless beloved?
  21. In Ukrainian literature, which literary generation of the 1960s included dissidents such as Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Ivan Drach, and Lina Kostenko?
  22. In Ukrainian literature, which prominent poet and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group died while imprisoned in the Soviet Perm-36 camp in 1985?
  23. In Ukrainian literature, what classic work of old Kyivan Rus literature (circa 1187) laments princely discord following a failed campaign against the Polovtsians?
  24. In Ukrainian literature, what literary genre is defined as a lyric poem consisting of exactly 14 lines arranged in an established rhyme scheme?
  25. In Ukrainian literature, what traditional oral epic genre originated during the Cossack era, sung by blind kobzars to the accompaniment of the bandura?
  26. In Ukrainian language, which punctuation mark is used to represent the non-palatal pronunciation of labial consonants before iotated vowels (ya, yu, ye, yi)?
  27. In Ukrainian orthography, after which group of consonants is the apostrophe written before iotated vowels (e.g., in 'm'yaso', 'b'yut')?
  28. In Ukrainian orthography, in which word is the soft sign (ь) NOT written?
  29. In Ukrainian phonetics, what vowel alternation occurs when closed syllables with 'i' open up in inflected forms (e.g., 'stil' to 'stola')?
  30. In Ukrainian morphology, how many noun declension classes (vidminy) exist in modern standard Ukrainian?
  31. In Ukrainian morphology, which noun belongs to the Fourth Declension (IV vidmina)?
  32. In Ukrainian morphology, how many grammatical cases are distinguished in noun and adjective declensions?
  33. In Ukrainian morphology, what suffix is standardly used to form the synthetic superlative degree of Ukrainian adjectives?
  34. In Ukrainian grammar, which cardinal numeral requires the genitive singular form of the accompanying masculine noun?
  35. In Ukrainian grammar, which cardinal numerals require the noun to take the genitive plural form?
  36. In Ukrainian morphology, what are the two main verbal aspects (vydy diyeslova)?
  37. In Ukrainian morphology, how is the subjunctive/conditional mood (umovnyi sposib) formed in Ukrainian?
  38. In Ukrainian morphology, what verbal form is 'chytayuchy' (while reading)?
  39. In Ukrainian syntax, what type of sentence is formed when two independent clauses are joined by coordinating conjunctions such as 'i', 'a', or 'ale'?
  40. In Ukrainian syntax, what type of subordinate clause answers the question 'chomu?' (why?) and is introduced by 'tomu shcho' or 'oskilky'?
  41. In Ukrainian syntax, what punctuation mark normally separates two clauses in a non-union sentence when the second clause indicates a direct consequence or result?
  42. In Ukrainian syntax, what punctuation mark separates clauses in a non-union sentence when the second clause explains the reason or expands on the first?
  43. In Ukrainian syntax, what part of the sentence is an introductory word (vstavne slovo) such as 'bezzaperechno' or 'na zhal'?
  44. In Ukrainian lexicology, what term describes words that have identical spelling and pronunciation but completely unrelated meanings (e.g., 'kosa')?
  45. In Ukrainian lexicology, what term refers to words belonging to the same root that sound similar but differ in meaning (e.g., 'efektnyy' and 'efektyvnyy')?
  46. In Ukrainian orthography, how is the prefix 's-' chosen over 'z-' before root consonants?
  47. In Ukrainian orthography, what prefix is used to denote highest degree or intense quality (e.g., 'prekrasnyy')?
  48. In Ukrainian literature, which artistic movement did the neoclassical poets (Mykola Zerov, Maksym Rylsky, Mykhailo Dray-Khmara) represent in the 1920s?
  49. In Ukrainian literature, who wrote the poignant lyrical poem 'Chy ne toy to khmil' depicting Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky?
  50. In Ukrainian literature, which author wrote the satirical play 'Martyn Borulya' about a wealthy peasant desperate for noble gentry status?
  51. In Ukrainian literature, who composed the tender autobiographical film-novella 'Zacharovana Desna' (The Enchanted Desna)?
  52. In Ukrainian syntax, how are isolated participial constructions (vidokremleni oznachennya) punctuated when following the noun they modify?
  53. In Ukrainian literature, which writer and prominent political activist authored the dystopian anti-imperial novel 'Khmara' and founded the revolutionary Kharkiv society?

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