The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

The Hotel de Paris

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

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

Lermontov

Julian

Julian's professor

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

Heart of Fire

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

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

Irina

Vicky

Boris

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

The Archers

The Producers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers
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?

Livy

Grischa Lubov

Vicky

Lady Neston
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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers
9 Who is the main character of the ballet-within-the-film?

A fairy

A young dancer

A schoolgirl

A white swan
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?"

Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Suicide
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?

Can't stop dancing

Jumps off a balcony

Killed by Julian

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

Backstage at a performance

In his office

In rehearsal

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

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

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

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?"

Vicky

Julian

Lermontov

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

Professor Palmer

Julian

Tchaikovsky

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

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

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

New York

London

Monte Carlo

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?

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

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

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

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

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

For the premiere of his first opera

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

Hiding from Lermontov
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?

He has fallen ill

He has run off to find Vicky

His train has been delayed

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

Irina

Vicky

Nobody

Lermontov

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