The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Julian's music school

The Hotel de Paris

An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov
2 Who wrote the music to Heart of Fire?

Lermontov

Julian's professor

Vicky

Julian
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire

Swan Lake

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

Boris

Vicky

Irina

Julian
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

Vicky

Livy

Lady Neston
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 fairy

A schoolgirl

A white swan

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

They magically tie up onto her feet

They are too heavy to dance in

They work just like normal pointe shoes

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 Lermonotv

Killed by Julian

Can't stop dancing

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

At a birthday party

In his office

In rehearsal

Backstage at a performance
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

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

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

At a birthday party

In the orchestra pit

On the beach in Monte Carlo

On a balcony
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"

Lermontov

Vicky

Grischa Ljubov

Julian
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

Paris

London

Monte Carlo
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?

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

Rehearsing at the operahouse

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

They are seated together during the performance

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?

Hiding from Lermontov

For the premiere of his first opera

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?

He has run off to find Vicky

His train has been delayed

He has fallen ill

He has died
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?

Vicky

Nobody

Irina

Lermontov

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