The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Julian's music school

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

An operahouse

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

Julian

Vicky

Lermontov

Julian's professor
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire

Swan Lake
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?

Irina

Vicky

Julian

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Archers

The Producers

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

She hurt her ankle

She is pregnant

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is engaged
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?

Lady Neston

Grischa Lubov

Vicky

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer
9 Who is the main character of the ballet-within-the-film?

A fairy

A schoolgirl

A white swan

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

They are too heavy to dance in

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They work just like normal pointe shoes

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

Hit by a train

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?

In his office

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

In rehearsal
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, alone

In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?

On a balcony

On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Grischa Ljubov

Vicky

Lermontov

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

Tchaikovsky

Lermontov

Professor Palmer

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

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

Coppelia

The Red Shoes
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?

New York

Monte Carlo

London

Paris
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?

Marry Julian

Retire and become a shopgirl

Start her own ballet company

Marry Grischa Lubov
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony

Rehearsing at the operahouse
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?

They are seated together during the performance

At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

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

For the premiere of his first opera

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

Hiding from Lermontov
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?

He has fallen ill

He has died

His train has been delayed

He has run off to find Vicky
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Nobody

Vicky

Lermontov

Irina

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