The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

Julian's music school

The Hotel de Paris

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

Julian's professor

Lermontov

Julian
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
The Nutcracker

Heart of Fire

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?
Julian

Vicky

Irina

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers

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

She is pregnant

She is engaged

She has a fight with Lermontov
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?
Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston

Vicky

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

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

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

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

A fairy

A white swan

A young dancer
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They are too heavy to dance in

They magically tie up onto her feet
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Exhaustion from dancing too much

Killed by the shoemaker

Hit by a train

Suicide
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Jumps off a balcony

Killed by Lermonotv

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Julian
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 Lermontov's office, alone

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

In Julian's hotel room
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?"
Vicky

Lermontov

Grischa Ljubov

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

Lermontov

Julian

Professor Palmer
18 What ballet does Vicky dance in the day she arrives at the Ballet Lermontov?
The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

Coppelia
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?
Monte Carlo

London

New York

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

Marry Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl

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

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

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

They are seated together during the performance
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

Hiding from Lermontov

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage
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

He has fallen ill

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

Lermontov

Nobody

Vicky

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