The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

Julian's music school
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?

Julian's professor

Vicky

Lermontov

Julian
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?

Boris

Vicky

Julian

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers

The Producers

The Archers
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?

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

Co-writers, co-directors, and co-producers
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 magically tie up onto her feet

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

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

Hit by a train

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

Killed by Julian

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Lermonotv

Jumps off a balcony
13 Where does Lermontov learn that Vicky and Julian are in love?

In his office

At a birthday party

Backstage at a performance

In rehearsal
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, alone

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

On the beach in Monte Carlo

At a birthday party

On a balcony

In the orchestra pit
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Grischa Ljubov

Lermontov

Vicky

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

Tchaikovsky

Julian

Professor Palmer

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

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

Coppelia
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?

Retire and become a shopgirl

Marry Grischa Lubov

Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company
21 Where are Vicky and Julian during Grischa Lubov's birthday party?

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony

Rehearsing at the operahouse
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?

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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

Hiding from Lermontov

For the premiere of his first opera
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

Nobody

Lermontov

Irina

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