The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
Julian's music school

The Hotel de Paris

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Julian

Vicky

Lermontov

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

The Red Shoes

The Nutcracker

Heart of Fire
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?
Vicky

Julian

Boris

Irina
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?
The Producers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Archers

The Warner Brothers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She hurt her ankle

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is engaged

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

Lady Neston

Livy

Grischa Lubov
8 How were Powell and Pressburger credited on the film?
Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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

A schoolgirl

A fairy

A white swan
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 magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Exhaustion from dancing too much

Hit by a train

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Can't stop dancing

Jumps off a balcony

Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
At a birthday party

In his office

In rehearsal

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment

In Julian's hotel room

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party

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

Lermontov

Grischa Ljubov

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

Julian

Tchaikovsky

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

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?
Monte Carlo

London

Paris

New York
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?
Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian

Marry Grischa Lubov

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

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

They are seated together during the performance

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

Hiding from Lermontov

For the premiere of his first opera

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
His train has been delayed

He has fallen ill

He has run off to find Vicky

He has died
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?
Nobody

Vicky

Irina

Lermontov

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