If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams

Dr. Seuss
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

An unnamed first-person narrator

The adult zookeeper

Gerald's mother
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Illustrator unknown

Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss

AI Technology
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2001

2021

2000

1950
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?
Cat

Dog

Lion

Deer
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
The ten-footed lion

There is no protagonist

Gerald

The adult zookeeper
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Global Conquest

True Love

Imagination

Public Recognition
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

It's fantastic

It's pretty good
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?
Proud

Depressed

Lazy

Hopeless
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?
Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

McGrew Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?
Ten-footed lion

An elephant with two trunks

A dog who never barks

Eight-footed cat
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Green

Blue

Yellow

Red
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Dog-cat

Elephant-cat

Scorpion-toad

Lizard-bird
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?
Skeegle-mobile

Skidoo

Dogsled

Seadoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Buttons and thread

Custard and mustard

Grass and rasberries

Small wingless flies
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
McG.

GG

A crucifix

McGrew
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?
Lunks

Skunks

Hunks

Chipmunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?
They are entangled with their family members' anters

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason

They are blind
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Smota

Iota

Cacota

Babota
21 On what continent is Yerka, according to the book?
Australia

Antarctica

Africa

Asia
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Zheesha Zsho

Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The inhabitants of Yerka

The Zind chieftains

The Persian princes

None of these
24 What red-and-blue creature does Gerald want to catch?
Nerd

Russian Palooski

Obsk

Zizanell
25 How does the story end?
With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald in the mouth of the Wizza-ma Fizza-ma Dill

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