Ukraine History Quiz

Which medieval state is considered the cultural and political predecessor of modern Ukraine?

• Kievan Rus'

• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• Ottoman Empire

What religion was officially adopted in Kievan Rus’ in 988 by Prince Volodymyr the Great?

• Islam

• Eastern Christianity (Orthodox Christianity)

• Catholicism

Which Cossack leader signed the 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement, aligning Ukraine with Russia?

• Ivan Mazepa

• Bohdan Khmelnytsky

• Petro Doroshenko

After the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, western Ukrainian lands (Galicia) came under the control of which empire?

• Austrian (Habsburg) Empire

• Russian Empire

• Ottoman Empire

The Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) declared independence after which major historical event?

• The Crimean War (1853–1856)

• The Russian Revolution (1917)

• World War II (1939–1945)

Which famine in Soviet Ukraine (1932–1933) caused millions of deaths and is recognized as a genocide by Ukraine and many countries?

• The Potato Famine

• The Holodomor

• The Great Purge

During World War II, much of Ukraine was occupied by which power?

• Germany

• Japan

• France

Which city became the capital of Soviet Ukraine in 1934, replacing Kharkiv?

• Odesa

• Kyiv

• Lviv

In 1954, Crimea was transferred from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian SSR by order of:

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union on:

• August 24, 1991

• November 7, 1990

• December 31, 1992