The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

An operahouse

Julian's music school
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

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

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

Vicky

Irina

Boris

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Producers

The Warner Brothers

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

She has a fight with Lermontov

She hurt her ankle

She is pregnant

She is engaged
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?

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 work just like normal pointe shoes

They magically tie up onto her feet

They are too heavy to dance in

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably
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

Can't stop dancing

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 Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

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

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

In the orchestra pit

On a balcony

At a birthday party

On the beach in Monte Carlo
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

Tchaikovsky

Julian

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

The Nutcracker

Coppelia

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes
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 Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl

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

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse

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

They are seated together during the performance

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

Hiding from Lermontov

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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

He has run off to find Vicky

He has fallen ill

He has died

His train has been delayed
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Vicky

Irina

Nobody

Lermontov

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