The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

Julian's music school
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Lermontov

Julian's professor

Julian

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

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

Boris

Irina

Vicky
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?
The Warner Brothers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Archers

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

She hurt her ankle

She has a fight with Lermontov

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

Grischa Lubov

Livy

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

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

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 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

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Suicide

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

Killed by Julian

Killed by Lermonotv

Jumps off a balcony
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
In rehearsal

At a birthday party

In his office

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
On the balcony

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

In Lermontov's office, alone

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

On a balcony

On the beach in Monte Carlo

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

Lermontov

Julian

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

Julian

Lermontov

Professor Palmer
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?
Paris

New York

London

Monte Carlo
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?
Rehearsing at the operahouse

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
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

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet
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

Hiding from Lermontov

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

He has run off to find Vicky

His train has been delayed

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

Lermontov

Irina

Nobody

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