The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

Julian's music school

The Hotel de Paris

An operahouse
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Julian

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire

The Nutcracker

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

Vicky

Irina

Julian
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 has a fight with Lermontov

She is engaged

She is pregnant

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

Lady Neston

Grischa Lubov

Livy
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 schoolgirl

A fairy

A young dancer

A white swan
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They magically tie up onto her feet

They are too heavy to dance in
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?
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?
Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

In rehearsal

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Julian's hotel room

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

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, alone
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?"
Grischa Ljubov

Vicky

Julian

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

Professor Palmer

Tchaikovsky

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

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?
Monte Carlo

Paris

New York

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

Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian

Retire and become a shopgirl
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?
Rehearsing at the operahouse

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him

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

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 died

His train has been delayed

He has fallen ill

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

Nobody

Vicky

Irina

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