History of Ukraine Quiz

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

• Grand Duchy of Lithuania

• Kyivan Rus’

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Who was the Grand Prince of Kyiv during the Christianization of Rus’ in 988?

• Yaroslav the Wise

• Volodymyr the Great

• Oleg the Seer

Which Cossack leader established the Cossack Hetmanate in the mid-17th century?

• Ivan Mazepa

• Bohdan Khmelnytsky

• Petro Doroshenko

The 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement aligned the Cossack Hetmanate with which power?

• Ottoman Empire

• Polish Kingdom

• Tsardom of Russia

Which empire controlled much of western Ukraine (Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia) before World War I?

• Ottoman Empire

• Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Russian Empire

After the collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires in 1917–1918, what was proclaimed in Kyiv?

• Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

• Ukrainian People’s Republic

• West Ukrainian Republic

The Holodomor (1932–1933) was a devastating famine in Soviet Ukraine caused by:

• Natural crop failure

• Foreign invasion

• Forced collectivization and grain requisitioning

During World War II, which city in Ukraine suffered one of the largest massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar?

• Odesa

• Kyiv

• Lviv

Which Soviet leader was born in Ukraine and later played a key role in de-Stalinization?

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

When did the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) declare Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union?

• August 24, 1991

• June 12, 1991

• December 26, 1991