--- title: Two empires and Shevchenko — how Mova does on the tests · History description: Lesson 45 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/) / 45 # Two empires and Shevchenko **Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 45 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} Danylo says Russia was the only empire that ever ruled Ukraine. What would the teacher show? - **1.** A map of the Roman Empire — no support - **2.** A map of Canada — no support - **3.** A map with Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian Empire — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nothing, Danylo is right, Russia was the only empire that ever came there — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 1: «In the 1800s Ukrainian lands were split between two empires: most in the Russian Empire, and Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian one; Danylo t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «russia» (+4); the same thing acted on «ukraine» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t1/) ### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2} Danylo says Shevchenko's better than Shakespeare, full stop. What's the wise answer? - **1.** Shakespeare wrote in Ukrainian — no support - **2.** You can be proud of him without ranking poets; his place for Ukrainians is huge — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, it's a proven fact that every expert and every teacher in the whole world agrees on — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **4.** Shevchenko wasn't a real poet — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «Danylo, a boy in the class, tells history like a football fan: Kyiv is the oldest, the biggest and the best, and anyone who disagrees is an enemy. The history…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «history teacher» (+5); the same action «hold» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t2/) ### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3} If Shevchenko had never been bought out of serfdom, what would most likely happen? - **1.** He would have ruled Austria — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He would have stayed owned by a landowner, with little chance to study art — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nothing would change, because serfs could already study wherever they wished — no support - **4.** He would have become tsar — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t3/) ### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4} Danylo says the tsar sent Shevchenko away just for writing Ukrainian. What's more exact? - **1.** Only for the language — no support - **2.** He was never exiled — no support - **3.** Mainly for poems mocking the tsar and the empire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** For stealing a horse — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 3: «Danylo said the tsar exiled Shevchenko «just for writing in Ukrainian», but it was mainly for poems mocking the tsar; yet the empire did attack the language to…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mock» (+2); the same doer «poems» (+2); the same thing acted on «tsar» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t4/) ### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5} Danylo goes «Russia banned Ukrainian, period». What's more exact? - **1.** Only songs were banned — no support - **2.** Printing, schools and theatre were heavily restricted, but people still spoke it at home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Nothing was ever restricted — no support - **4.** Nobody could say one single word of it anywhere, not even quietly at home in the kitchen with family — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 9: «The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire, calling it a dialect of R…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+2); the same place «home» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} Danylo says Franko and Lesia spoke twenty languages each. teacher wants a source. Wise move? - **1.** Keep twenty, it sounds better — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Say they spoke only one — no support - **3.** Use numbers you can check, like «more than ten» for Franko — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Make it fifty — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t6/) ### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7} Danylo says Ukrainians built Canada. What's fair? - **1.** They helped settle the Prairies, after Indigenous peoples and with many others — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** They built every Canadian city alone — no support - **3.** Canada was founded in Kyiv — no support - **4.** They never went to Canada, because they all moved to Brazil and Argentina instead — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} Danylo says Odesa's been Ukrainian since forever. What's the fix? - **1.** It was founded in 1991 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was founded by Kyi in 482 — no support - **3.** It was always Greek — no support - **4.** It is a young, mixed port founded in 1794, now part of Ukraine — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} Danylo says Gogol's ours, teacher says «Russian writer». What covers it? - **1.** A writer of Ukrainian origin who wrote in Russian; both cultures claim him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Only Russian, he never saw Ukraine — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** A French writer — no support - **4.** Only Ukrainian, he never wrote a single line in Russian in his whole long life — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 4: «About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty and respect for parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example. His sayin…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «teacher» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t9/) ### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10} Danylo says Ukrainians were never serfs. How would the teacher prove otherwise? - **1.** By naming Gogol — score 3 - **2.** By showing the Sich — no support - **3.** Shevchenko himself was born a serf — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** It cannot be proved — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «Danylo, a boy in the class, tells history like a football fan: Kyiv is the oldest, the biggest and the best, and anyone who disagrees is an enemy. The history…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+3); the same doer «history teacher» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t10/) ### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11} Danylo thinks Donbas was always farmland; the teacher didn't know about the Welsh link. What's the lesson? - **1.** Donbas never had any coal — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Donbas is really in Wales, and the Welsh miners named it after their own valley there — no support - **3.** Nobody ever learns anything — no support - **4.** Both swapped facts: coal and steel grew there, and a Welshman founded Donetsk — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t11/) ### Test 12 · right ✓ {#t12} Danylo says Hrushevsky proved Ukraine is older than Russia. What do historians do? - **1.** They copy the chronicle — no support - **2.** They vote on the answer — no support - **3.** They argue with evidence, as Hrushevsky did — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** They prove things like maths sums — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 14: «Norse traders from Sweden travelled down the rivers of eastern Europe, traded with Constantinople and Baghdad, and took part in founding the state of Kyivan Ru…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «argue» (+2); the same doer «historians» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of Ukrainian lands during the nineteenth century? - **1.** They were divided between the Russian and Austrian empires — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** They formed part of the Kingdom of Sweden — no support - **3.** They were governed in their entirety by the Ottoman Empire — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** They constituted an independent kingdom — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 1: «Once there were cities, people needed ways to move goods, settle quarrels and rule large lands, and Mesopotamia tried all three.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «rule» (+2); the same doer «people» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the circumstances by which Taras Shevchenko obtained release from serfdom. - **1.** He was liberated by the Ems decree — no support - **2.** He was elected hetman by the Sich — no support - **3.** He was released upon the abolition of serfdom in eighteen hundred and sixty-one — no support - **4.** His freedom was purchased in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight with the assistance of artists — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 2: «Taras Shevchenko was born a serf, which meant he belonged to a landowner; artists bought his freedom in 1838, and his book of poems «Kobzar» became a founding…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «buy» (+2); the same thing acted on «freedom» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Ascertain the principal effect of the Ems decree of eighteen hundred and seventy-six. - **1.** The prohibition of most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The emancipation of the serfs — no support - **3.** The prohibition of spoken Ukrainian within the household — no support - **4.** The establishment of Ukrainian schools in every province — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the foundation of the city of Odesa. - **1.** It was founded by the brothers Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was founded in seventeen hundred and ninety-four upon the site of the Ottoman settlement Khadzhibey — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It was founded in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-one — no support - **4.** It was founded by Ukrainian emigrants returning from the Canadian Prairies in the year eighteen hundred — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/e4/) - ← previous: [44. The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/) - next →: [46. The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/)