The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

Julian's music school

An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?

Julian

Vicky

Julian's professor

Lermontov
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

Heart of Fire

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

The Nutcracker
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?

Irina

Julian

Vicky

Boris
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?

The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Producers

The Warner Brothers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?

She is engaged

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is pregnant

She hurt her ankle
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?

Livy

Lady Neston

Grischa Lubov

Vicky
8 How were Powell and Pressburger credited on the film?

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers
9 Who is the main character of the ballet-within-the-film?

A young dancer

A white swan

A schoolgirl

A fairy
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They are too heavy to dance in

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They magically tie up onto her feet
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Suicide

Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Julian

Killed by Lermonotv

Jumps off a balcony
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?

In his office

In rehearsal

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?

On the beach in Monte Carlo

At a birthday party

In the orchestra pit

On a balcony
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Lermontov

Julian

Grischa Ljubov

Vicky
17 Who wrote the music for the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Professor Palmer

Julian

Tchaikovsky

Lermontov
18 What ballet does Vicky dance in the day she arrives at the Ballet Lermontov?

The Red Shoes

The Nutcracker

Coppelia

Swan Lake
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?

Paris

London

New York

Monte Carlo
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?

Marry Grischa Lubov

Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian

Retire and become a shopgirl
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?

In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?

Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

They are seated together during the performance

At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

To support Vicky's performance in the revival of The Red Shoes

Hiding from Lermontov

For the premiere of his first opera
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?

He has died

His train has been delayed

He has run off to find Vicky

He has fallen ill
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Lermontov

Vicky

Nobody

Irina

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