The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Julian's music school

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

The Hotel de Paris

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

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky

Julian
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

The Red Shoes

The Nutcracker
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?

The Producers

The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

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

She is engaged

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is pregnant

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

Grischa Lubov

Vicky

Lady Neston

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

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

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 white swan

A young dancer

A schoolgirl

A fairy
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?

They are too heavy to dance in

They magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Killed by the shoemaker

Suicide

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Hit by a train
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?

In rehearsal

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance

In his office
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?

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?"

Grischa Ljubov

Julian

Lermontov

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

Lermontov

Professor Palmer

Julian

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?

London

Paris

Monte Carlo

New York
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?

Marry Grischa Lubov

Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company

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

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony

Rehearsing at the operahouse

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

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?

For the premiere of his first opera

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

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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 fallen ill

He has died

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

Vicky

Nobody

Lermontov

Irina

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