The Red Shoes Quizzes

The Red Shoes Quiz 1

1 Where does the first scene take place?

Julian's music school

An operahouse

The Hotel de Paris

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

Julian

Julian's professor

Vicky

Lermontov
3 What is performed in the opening scene?

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

Heart of Fire

The Red Shoes
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 Producers

The Archers

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

She hurt her ankle

She is pregnant

She has a fight with Lermontov

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

Lady Neston

Vicky

Livy

Grischa Lubov
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 young dancer

A fairy

A white swan

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

They make her run across the stage uncontrollably

They are too heavy to dance in

They work just like normal pointe shoes

They magically tie up onto her feet
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?

In his office

Backstage at a performance

In rehearsal

At a birthday party
14 Where does Vicky eat during rehearsals?

In Lermontov's office, alone

On the balcony

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

In Julian's hotel room
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

Julian

Vicky

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

Professor Palmer

Julian

Lermontov

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

Swan Lake

The Red Shoes

Coppelia

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

Paris

London

New York

Monte Carlo
20 What does Vicky do after leaving the Ballet Lermontov?

Marry Julian

Marry Grischa Lubov

Retire and become a shopgirl

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

In Julian's hotel room

On the balcony

In a romantic carriage ride

Rehearsing at the operahouse
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?

Hiding from Lermontov

To ask for Vicky's hand in marriage

For the premiere of his first opera

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 run off to find Vicky

He has died

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

Irina

Nobody

Lermontov

Vicky

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