The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

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

The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

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

Julian

Julian's professor

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

The Nutcracker

Heart of Fire

Swan Lake
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?
The Producers

The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers
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?
Lady Neston

Livy

Vicky

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 schoolgirl

A white swan

A young dancer

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

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They magically tie up onto her feet

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Exhaustion from dancing too much

Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker

Hit by a train
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Can't stop dancing

Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony

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

In his office

Backstage at a performance

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

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

On the balcony

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

On a balcony

On the beach in Monte Carlo

At a birthday party
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

Tchaikovsky

Julian

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

The Red Shoes

Coppelia

The Nutcracker
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?
Monte Carlo

Paris

London

New York
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?
Marry Grischa Lubov

Marry Julian

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

Rehearsing at the operahouse

In Julian's hotel room
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 ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

For the premiere of his first opera

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

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

His train has been delayed

He has fallen ill

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

Irina

Nobody

Lermontov

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