The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

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

Julian's music school

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

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

Julian's professor

Lermontov

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
Heart of Fire

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

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 Warner Brothers

The Archers

The Producers

Powell and Pressburger Studios
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She is pregnant

She hurt her ankle

She is engaged

She has a fight with Lermontov
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?
Livy

Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston

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

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer 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 white swan

A schoolgirl

A young dancer

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

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in

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

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Hit by a train
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?
Killed by Lermonotv

Can't stop dancing

Jumps off a balcony

Killed by Julian
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?
In his office

In rehearsal

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment

In Lermontov's office, alone

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony
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?"
Grischa Ljubov

Lermontov

Vicky

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

Tchaikovsky

Lermontov

Julian
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 Grischa Lubov

Marry Julian
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?
In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
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

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet
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 fallen ill

He has died

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

Vicky

Irina

Nobody

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