If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
John Quincy Adams

Dr. Seuss

Jonathan Swift

Gerald McGrew
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
The adult zookeeper

Gerald McGrew

Gerald's mother

An unnamed first-person narrator
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew

Illustrator unknown

AI Technology
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
1950

2021

2001

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

Lion

Dog

Deer
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper

There is no protagonist
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Public Recognition

Global Conquest

True Love

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

It's awful

It's mind-numbingly boring

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

Proud

Lazy

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

Kablue Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

McGrew Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?
A dog who never barks

Eight-footed cat

An elephant with two trunks

Ten-footed lion
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Red

Blue

Yellow

Green
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Scorpion-toad

Lizard-bird

Elephant-cat

Dog-cat
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?
Skeegle-mobile

Seadoo

Dogsled

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

Small wingless flies

Custard and mustard

Grass and rasberries
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
McGrew

GG

A crucifix

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

Hunks

Skunks

Chipmunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?
They can't look on top of their heads

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They are blind

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Cacota

Smota

Babota

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

Asia

Africa

Antarctica
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe

Zheesha Zsho
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The Zind chieftains

The Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

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

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

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

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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

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