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

An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?
Vicky

Julian

Lermontov

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

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

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

Julian

Vicky

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

The Archers

The Producers

The Warner Brothers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She is pregnant

She is engaged

She has a fight with Lermontov

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

Lady Neston

Livy

Vicky
8 How were Powell and Pressburger credited on the film?
Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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 young dancer

A schoolgirl

A fairy

A white swan
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

Suicide

Exhaustion from dancing too much
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Killed by Lermonotv

Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance

In his office

In rehearsal
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 a balcony

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party

On the beach in Monte Carlo
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Julian

Lermontov

Grischa Ljubov

Vicky
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?
Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

Coppelia

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

New York

Monte Carlo

London
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?
Retire and become a shopgirl

Start her own ballet company

Marry Julian

Marry Grischa Lubov
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?
In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

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

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

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

Hiding from Lermontov

For the premiere of his first opera

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
His train has been delayed

He has died

He has fallen ill

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

Lermontov

Nobody

Irina

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