The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
Julian's music school

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

The Hotel de Paris
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Julian

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky
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

Boris

Irina

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

The Producers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She hurt her ankle

She is pregnant

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is engaged
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 and producer, Pressburger as writer

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer
9 Who is the main character of the ballet-within-the-film?
A fairy

A white swan

A young dancer

A schoolgirl
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They work just like normal pointe shoes

They are too heavy to dance in

They magically tie up onto her feet

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

Hit by a train

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Lermonotv
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
In his office

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

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

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
On a balcony

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party

On the beach in Monte Carlo
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Grischa Ljubov

Vicky

Lermontov

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

Lermontov

Professor Palmer

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

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?
New York

Paris

London

Monte Carlo
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?
Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company

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 a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

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
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?
Hiding from Lermontov

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
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
His train has been delayed

He has run off to find Vicky

He has fallen ill

He has died
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?
Irina

Lermontov

Nobody

Vicky

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