The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
An operahouse

Julian's music school

The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Lermontov

Vicky

Julian

Julian's professor
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire

The Nutcracker

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

Julian

Irina

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

The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

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

She is pregnant

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is engaged
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?
Grischa Lubov

Livy

Lady Neston

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

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director 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 young dancer

A fairy

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

They are too heavy to dance in

They magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Suicide

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Killed by the shoemaker

Hit by a train
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?
Backstage at a performance

In rehearsal

At a birthday party

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Julian's hotel room

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
At a birthday party

In the orchestra pit

On the beach in Monte Carlo

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

Julian

Lermontov

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

Professor Palmer

Julian

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

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

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 Grischa Lubov

Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company

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

They are seated together during the performance

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

Nobody

Irina

Lermontov

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