If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew

John Quincy Adams

Jonathan Swift
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew

Gerald's mother

The adult zookeeper
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?

Gerald McGrew

AI Technology

Dr. Seuss

Illustrator unknown
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?

2001

2021

1950

2000
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?

Dog

Cat

Lion

Deer
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

There is no protagonist

Gerald

The ten-footed lion

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

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

True Love

Public Recognition

Global Conquest

Imagination
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?

It's pretty good

It's fantastic

It's awful

It's mind-numbingly boring
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?

Lazy

Depressed

Proud

Hopeless
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

McGrew Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?

A dog who never barks

Eight-footed cat

Ten-footed lion

An elephant with two trunks
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?

Green

Yellow

Red

Blue
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?

Dog-cat

Lizard-bird

Scorpion-toad

Elephant-cat
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?

Seadoo

Dogsled

Skidoo

Skeegle-mobile
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?

GG

McG.

McGrew

A crucifix
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?

Lunks

Chipmunks

Skunks

Hunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?

No reason

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They can't look on top of their heads

They are blind
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?

Smota

Babota

Iota

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

Asia

Antarctica

Africa

Australia
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?

Zheesha Zsho

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?

The Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

The Zind chieftains

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 locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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