The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Julian's music school

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

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

Julian's professor

Lermontov

Julian

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

The Nutcracker

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

Julian

Boris

Vicky

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers

The Archers

The Producers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?

She is engaged

She is pregnant

She hurt her ankle

She has a fight with Lermontov
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?

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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

Powell as writer, Pressburger as director and producer
9 Who is the main character of the ballet-within-the-film?

A schoolgirl

A fairy

A young dancer

A white swan
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They are too heavy to dance in

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?"

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Suicide

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

Killed by Julian

Jumps off a balcony

Can't stop dancing

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 Lermontov's office, with Julian's musical accompaniment

In Julian's hotel room

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony
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

Grischa Ljubov

Julian

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

Lermontov

Julian

Tchaikovsky

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

The Nutcracker

Coppelia

Swan Lake

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

New York

Monte Carlo

Paris

London
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?

Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company

Retire and become a shopgirl

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

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room

Rehearsing at the operahouse

In a romantic carriage ride
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?

They are seated together during the performance

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
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

For the premiere of his first opera

Hiding from Lermontov

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

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?

Nobody

Irina

Vicky

Lermontov

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