The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

An operahouse

Julian's music school

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?

Heart of Fire

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

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

Irina

Julian

Boris

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

The Producers

The Warner Brothers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

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

She has a fight with Lermontov

She hurt her ankle

She is engaged

She is pregnant
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?

Livy

Vicky

Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston
8 How were Powell and Pressburger credited on the film?

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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 white swan

A fairy

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 make her run across the stage uncontrollably

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

Hit by a train

Suicide

Exhaustion from dancing too much

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

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?

In rehearsal

In his office

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

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

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room

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

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party

On a balcony

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

Lermontov

Julian

Grischa Ljubov

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

Julian

Professor Palmer

Tchaikovsky

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

Coppelia

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?

London

New York

Paris

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

Marry Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl

Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?

Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

They are seated together during the performance

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?

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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

For the premiere of his first opera

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

His train has been delayed

He has run off to find Vicky
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Lermontov

Nobody

Irina

Vicky

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