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

Vicky

Lermontov

Julian's professor
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
The Red Shoes

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

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?
The Producers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Archers

The Warner Brothers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She is engaged

She hurt her ankle

She has a fight with Lermontov

She is pregnant
7 Who becomes the new principal dancer after Irina's departure?
Livy

Grischa Lubov

Vicky

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 young dancer

A fairy

A schoolgirl

A white swan
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?"
Suicide

Hit by a train

Killed by the shoemaker

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

Killed by Julian

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

At a birthday party

In rehearsal
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
In Julian's hotel room

In Lermontov's office, alone

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

On the balcony
15 Where do Vicky and Julian first begin to fall in love?
At a birthday party

On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit

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

Grischa Ljubov

Lermontov

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

Julian

Professor Palmer

Tchaikovsky
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

London

Paris

Monte Carlo
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?
On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

In Julian's hotel room

Rehearsing at the operahouse
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
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

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

He has fallen ill

He has run off to find Vicky

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

Lermontov

Vicky

Nobody

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