The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

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

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

The Hotel de Paris

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

Vicky

Julian's professor

Lermontov
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
The Red Shoes

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?
Julian

Boris

Irina

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

The Producers

The Warner Brothers

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

She hurt her ankle

She is pregnant

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

Vicky

Livy

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer
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 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?"
Suicide

Hit by a train

Exhaustion from dancing too much

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

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
In rehearsal

In his office

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
On the balcony

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

In Lermontov's office, alone

In Julian's hotel room
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
On the beach in Monte Carlo

At a birthday party

On a balcony

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

Grischa Ljubov

Julian

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

Julian

Professor Palmer

Lermontov
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?
Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian

Marry Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?
In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony
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

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
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
He has fallen ill

His train has been delayed

He has died

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

Irina

Vicky

Nobody

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