The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

The Hotel de Paris

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

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky

Julian
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

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

Boris

Julian

Vicky

Irina
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?

The Warner Brothers

The Producers

The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios
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?

Livy

Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

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

A young dancer

A white swan

A schoolgirl

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

They magically tie up onto her feet

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in

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

Hit by a train

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?

Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?

In rehearsal

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room

In Lermontov's office, alone

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

On a balcony

On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit

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

Grischa Ljubov

Julian

Vicky

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?

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

Coppelia

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

Paris

London

New York

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

Marry Julian

Retire and become a shopgirl

Marry Grischa Lubov

Start her own ballet company
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

Rehearsing at the operahouse
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?

At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

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

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

They are seated together during the performance
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

Hiding from Lermontov

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

For the premiere of his first opera
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?

He has run off to find Vicky

He has died

He has fallen ill

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

Nobody

Irina

Vicky

Lermontov

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