News quiz

The quiz covers the previous two issues of The Ukrainian Weekly. Answers will appear with the next quiz.

1. Which foreign representatives spoke out in defense of the Ukrainian Catholic Church at the Madrid Conference?

2. What is the significance of the Lviv Synod of 1446?

3. Which day was proclaimed Human Rights Day by President Jimmy Carter and is observed by dissidents in the Soviet Union?

4. What additional clause has been appended to this year's human rights proclamation?

5. What is the current number of imprisoned members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group?

6. Name the latest major Soviet writer, author of the satirical novels "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Chonkin" and "The Ivankiad," who was recently forced to emigrate to the West?

7. Who is the latest Ukrainian dissident to have been arrested after having protested the Russification policies in Ukraine?

8. Name a popular "shchedrivka" composed by Mykola Leontovych.

9. What is the vertep theater?

10. Which artist is known for her glasspaintings using Ukrainian motifs?

Answers to previous news quiz:

Vasyl Stus; 1921 in Vienna; Wolodymyr Groudine, Roman Prydatkevych; Dr. Renata Holod; work jointly to reform the current UCCA; John O. Flis; Wolodymyr Barahura; Eugene M. Iwanciw; one of the hostages in Iran who is of Ukrainian descent; violations by the Council of Religious Affairs of Soviet legal guarantees of freedom of conscience; Gen. Petro Grigorenko.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1980, No. 31, Vol. LXXXVII

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