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?

Julian

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire
4 Who does Lermontov meet at the after-party?

Irina

Boris

Julian

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

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Archers

The Warner Brothers

The Producers
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?

Vicky

Livy

Grischa Lubov

Lady Neston
8 How were Powell and Pressburger credited on the film?

Powell as director, Pressburger as writer and producer

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

Powell as director and producer, Pressburger as writer

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

A schoolgirl

A white swan

A fairy

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

They are too heavy to dance in

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They magically tie up onto her feet

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

Exhaustion from dancing too much

Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

Suicide
12 How does Vicky die at the end of the film?

Can't stop dancing

Killed by Julian

Killed by Lermonotv

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

In his office

Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

In rehearsal
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

On the balcony

In Lermontov's office, alone

In Julian's hotel room

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

Professor Palmer

Tchaikovsky

Lermontov

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

The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

The Nutcracker

Coppelia
19 Where is the first stop on the Ballet Lermontov's tour?

London

Monte Carlo

Paris

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

Retire and become a shopgirl

Marry Julian

Start her own ballet company

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

Rehearsing at the operahouse

On the balcony

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride
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

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 ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

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

For the premiere of his first opera

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

He has run off to find Vicky

He has died

He has fallen ill

His train has been delayed
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Vicky

Nobody

Irina

Lermontov

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