The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

An operahouse

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

Julian

Vicky

Julian's professor
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?
Vicky

Boris

Irina

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

The Warner Brothers

The Archers

The Producers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She has a fight with Lermontov

She is pregnant

She is engaged

She hurt her ankle
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?
Grischa Lubov

Vicky

Lady Neston

Livy
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 director, Pressburger as writer and producer

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

A young dancer

A white swan

A fairy
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They are too heavy to dance in

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They work just like normal pointe shoes

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

Hit by a train

Suicide

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

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

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 the beach in Monte Carlo

At a birthday party

In the orchestra pit

On a balcony
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Vicky

Julian

Grischa Ljubov

Lermontov
17 Who wrote the music for the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Professor Palmer

Lermontov

Julian

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

Swan Lake

Coppelia

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

Monte Carlo

New York

Paris
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?
Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room
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?
To support Vicky's performance in the revival of The Red Shoes

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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 run off to find Vicky

He has fallen ill

His train has been delayed

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

Irina

Nobody

Vicky

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