The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?
An operahouse

Backstage at the Ballet Lermontov

The Hotel de Paris

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

Vicky

Julian

Lermontov
3 What is performed in the opening scene?
Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

Heart of Fire

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

Vicky

Irina

Boris
5 What was the name of Powell and Pressburger's collaborative team?
The Archers

Powell and Pressburger Studios

The Warner Brothers

The Producers
6 Why does Irina leave Lermontov's dance company?
She has a fight with Lermontov

She hurt her ankle

She is engaged

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

Vicky

Lady Neston

Livy
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 white swan

A fairy

A young dancer

A schoolgirl
10 What happens when the dancer tries on the Red Shoes?
They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They magically tie up onto her feet

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They are too heavy to dance in
11 How does the dancer die at the end of the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Suicide

Killed by the shoemaker

Exhaustion from dancing too much

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?
Backstage at a performance

At a birthday party

In rehearsal

In his office
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?
On the balcony

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

In Julian's hotel room

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

On the beach in Monte Carlo

In the orchestra pit

At a birthday party
16 Who choreographed the ballet "The Red Shoes?"
Lermontov

Julian

Vicky

Grischa Ljubov
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

Swan Lake

Coppelia

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

London

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

In Julian's hotel room

In a romantic carriage ride

On the balcony
22 How does Vicky meet Lermontov at the beginning of the film?
At the stage door, where she goes to get his autograph

Coincidentally, at the after-party buffet

They are seated together during the performance

Her aunt, Lady Neston, convinces Lermontov to let her dance for him
23 Why is Julian in London near the end of the film?
To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

For the premiere of his first opera

Hiding from Lermontov

To support Vicky's performance in the revival of The Red Shoes
24 What reason does the radio broadcaster give for Julian's opera not being performed?
His train has been delayed

He has fallen ill

He has died

He has run off to find Vicky
25 Who stars in the final performance of The Red Shoes?
Nobody

Vicky

Irina

Lermontov

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