The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris

Julian's music school

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

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

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

Boris

Vicky

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

The Producers

The Archers

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

She is pregnant

She has a fight with Lermontov

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

Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston

Vicky
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 director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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

A fairy

A schoolgirl

A young dancer
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They work just like normal pointe shoes

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in

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

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker

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

Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian

Can't stop dancing
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
In his office

In rehearsal

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party
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 a balcony

In the orchestra pit

On the beach in Monte Carlo

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

Lermontov

Vicky

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

Julian

Professor Palmer

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

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

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

New York

Monte Carlo

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

Marry Julian

Retire and become a shopgirl

Start her own ballet company
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?
Rehearsing at the operahouse

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

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

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

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?
His train has been delayed

He has run off to find Vicky

He has fallen ill

He has died
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?
Vicky

Irina

Lermontov

Nobody

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