Shevchenko
What was Taras Shevchenko’s main job?
artist / painter
What is the Hopak and how can it be described in one or two words?
Dance / athletic / military-style / acrobatic / resembling martial arts / etc
What happens with objects and people in Yuri Vynnychuk’s story “The Embroidered World” when the grandmother embroiders them?
Disappear
Nikolai Gogol (or, via Ukrainian transliteration, Mykola Hohol) is a 19th-century imperial writer, who was born in Ukraine and then moved to St. Petersburg to pursue a literary career in Russian. His identity can be best characterized as... [answer in one word]
hybrid (or anything along those lines / e.g., conflicted / dual / etc)
Ivan Franko, a turn-of-the-century Ukrainian writer who wrote 50 volumes of works, was more than a writer. What was he?
politician
public figure
activist
What is the name is Shevcehnko's poetry collection, the name he borrowed from travelling bards / minstrels who performed the dumy epic songs?
Kobzar
Kolomyika is a social dance of the Carpathian highlanders. How is it danced / performed? Give two attributes.
With a partner + musical accompaniment & singing
What socio-economic problem is at stake in Sodomora’s story “The Dance”?
social inequality / land / class / poor vs rich
Gogol wrote short stories about Ukraine, in the Russian language that is not typically Russian but instead imbued with Ukrainian grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. His novels expose which problem in imperial Russia?
Franko’s main idea for progress and a better life for his nation was about... (finish with one word).
education / enlightenment
What’s the overarching motif of Shevchenko's oeuvre?
freedom / liberty
The spring song, vesnianka, performed by the band Shum-A features a...
a post-apocalyptic scene
Chornobyl
rebirth / new beginning
What two social / problems are raised in Andriy Sodomora's story “The Dance”? (arranged marriage / domestic abuse)
arranged marriage / domestic abuse
Gogol’s horror story “Viy” ridicules _________________ by providing a lengthy introduction about three religious seminary students (what they do and how they are treated) before the storyline reaches its culmination with the witch encounter.
Schools / education / beating of students / curriculum / poverty / etc
Based on his poem “Spirit of Revolt,” Franko believed that people can change their lives for the better by …
rebelling / being active / protesting / uprising / anything along the lines of revolution
In his poem “My Testament” Shevchenko says he doesn’t want to know God until...
- justice is done
- Ukraine regains freedom
- the Dnipro river carries the blood of enemies into the Black Sea
or any similar response
Which world-famous carol was written by a Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych?
"Shchedryk" aka "The Carol of the Bells."
Sodomora’s story “The String” suggests that music has the power to …
heal / cure / relieve pain
Khoma’s death, caused by Viy, the chief of gnomes, (who pointed at him so that all the evil forces could charge him) is attributed to which psychological concept?
Fear
Lesia Ukrainka was a turn-of-the-century Ukrainian modernist writer who believed Ukraine and Ukrainian literature/culture are an integral part of which framework / system?
Europe / European
How is suicide depicted in Shevchenko’s poem “Bewitched”?
mermaids / the supernatural
Give an example of a ritual song (besides spring or winter songs)?
Wedding / funeral / b/d / harvest
Andriy Sodomora’s story “The String” invites us to reflect on the power of first ____________________, suggesting also that the very first/original impression probably came from ___________________.
Fill in the two missing words for full credit.
impression / nature
The main message of Lesia Ukrainka’s poem “Contra Spem Spero” is ... (finish with one or two words)
Optimism despite hardship / resilience