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

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
Heart of Fire

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?
Vicky

Julian

Irina

Boris
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?
The Archers

The Warner Brothers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Producers
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?
Grischa Lubov

Vicky

Livy

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers
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 make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in

They magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Exhaustion from dancing too much

Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

Suicide
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

In his office

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Lermontov's office, alone

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

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
At a birthday party

On a balcony

On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Vicky

Grischa Ljubov

Julian

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

Lermontov

Professor Palmer

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

The Red Shoes

Coppelia

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

Monte Carlo

New York

Paris
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?
Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
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

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 ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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

Hiding from Lermontov
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
He has died

He has fallen ill

He has run off to find Vicky

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

Nobody

Vicky

Irina

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