The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

The Hotel de Paris

Julian's music school

An operahouse

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

Julian

Vicky

Julian's professor

Lermontov
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

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 Archers

The Warner Brothers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Producers
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

Vicky

Grischa Lubov

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

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

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

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

A white swan

A fairy

A young dancer

A schoolgirl
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

Killed by the shoemaker

Hit by a train

Exhaustion from dancing too much
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 rehearsal

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Julian's hotel room

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

In Lermontov's office, alone

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

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party

On the beach in Monte Carlo

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

Lermontov

Julian

Vicky

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

Julian

Tchaikovsky

Lermontov

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

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

Coppelia

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

New York

Paris

Monte Carlo

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

Start her own ballet company

Marry Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl

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

Rehearsing at the operahouse

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony
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

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

They are seated together during the performance
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

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

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

For the premiere of his first opera

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

He has run off to find Vicky

He has died

His train has been delayed

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

Nobody

Irina

Vicky

Lermontov

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